A woman, tall and proud, crowned with a simple oak twig

Gustave Doré (1832-83), artist

1862

Source: X. B. Santine's La Mythologie du Rhin, 87.

The Druid priestess commands Drusus, the adopted son of the Emperor Augustus, to return across the Rhine to his camp. . . and die. And he did.

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