quin etiam ingenio fluxi, sed prima feroces, vaniloquum Celtae genus ac mutabile mentis, respectare domos; maerebant caede sine ulla (insolitum sibi) bella geri, siccasque cruore inter tela siti Mavortis hebescere dextras.
Moreover, the Gauls, a boastful and unstable people, bold at the start but infirm of purpose, were turning their eyes homewards: unaccustomed to a bloodless campaign, they grieved that their hands, unwetted with gore in time of war, should be enfeebled by thirst for conflict.
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