§5.14.1Ex his omnibus longe sunt humanissimi qui Cantium incolunt, quae regio est maritima omnis, neque multum a Gallica differunt consuetudine.
Of all these, those who inhabit Cantium, which is entirely a maritime region, are by far the most civilized, and do not differ much from Gallic customs.
§5.14.2Interiores plerique frumenta non serunt, sed lacte et carne vivunt pellibusque sunt vestiti.
Most of the inland inhabitants do not sow corn, but live on milk and flesh, and are clad with skins.
Omnes vero se Britanni vitro inficiunt, quod caeruleum efficit colorem, atque hoc horridiores sunt in pugna aspectu; §5.14.3capilloque sunt promisso atque omni parte corporis rasa praeter caput et labrum superius.
All the Britons, indeed, dye themselves with woad, which produces a blue color, and thereby they are of a more terrible appearance in battle; and they wear their hair long, and have every part of their body shaved except their head and upper lip.
§5.14.4Vxores habent deni duodenique inter se communes et maxime fratres cum fratribus parentesque cum liberis; sed qui sunt ex his nati, eorum habentur liberi, quo primum virgo quaeque deducta est.
They have wives shared in common among groups of ten or twelve, especially brothers with brothers and parents with children; but the children born of them are regarded as the children of those to whom each virgin was first conducted.