Caesar bellum Gallicum 1.29

Tablets were found in the Helvetii's camp, written in Greek characters, and were taken to Caesar. They contained a complete record under several headings-the numbers which had set out from the homeland, those capable of bearing arms, and a separate list of the boys, the old men, and the women. The sum total of all these categories came to

263.000 of the Helvetii:

of the Tulingi there were 36.000,

of the Latovici 14.000,

of the Raurici 23.000,

and of the Boii 32.000.

About 92.000 of these were capable of bearing arms. The total number was about 368.000.

When a census was taken of those who returned home, in accordance with Caesar's orders,

the number came to 110.000.

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