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druides rebus divinis intersunt, sacrificia publica ac privata procurant, religiones interpretantur:
Druids are concerned with divine matters, they look after public and private sacrifices, and they explain religious questions:
ad hos magnus numerus adulescentium discendi causa concurrit, magnoque hi sunt apud eos honore.
a large number of young men flock to these Druids in order to learn, and they are held in great honour by them.
nam fere de omnibus contoversiis publicis privatisque constituunt,
For they decide on almost all public and private disputes,
et, si quod, facinus admissum est, si caedes facta, si de hereditate, de finibus contoversia est, Druides rem decernunt, praemia oenasque constituunt.
and, if any crime has been committed, if a murder has occurred, if there is an argument about inheritance or boundaries, the Druids settle the matter and they decide on rewards and punishments
si aut privatus aut publicus eorum decreto non stetit, sacrificiis interdicunt:
if anyone, either public or private, has not stood by their decision, they ban them from sacrifices:
haec poenas apud eos est gravissima
this punishment is very serious in their eyes