OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 8:2

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and that they are valiant men. They told him of their wars and exploits which they do among the Gauls, and how they conquered them, and forced them to pay tribute;

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Verse 2. They heard, and so forth What is here set down of the history and character of the ancient Romans, is not an assertion, or affirmation of the sacred writer; but only a relation of what Judas had heard of them. Challoner.—Fame generally magnifies.—Galatia, over which Volso triumphed. Livy xxxviii. Calmet.—The Gauls near Narbonne were then tributary to the Romans. Harduin.

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