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past tense, since Rome had by then suppressed it, and both he and Diodorus dwell on it mainly to brand the cruelty of the Gauls. A closely similar divination from a slain captive recurs in Posidonian accounts of the Lusitanians and the Cimbri. The literary stress on human sacrifice also does not align with the archaeological evidence, which show that animal sacrifice was far more common. Even so, Andreas Hofeneder regards the practice itself as beyond doubt, an exceptional form

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