The Geography of Strabo II trans. H.L. Jones (Loeb, 1949), 244-5 (Book IV, 4.4) describes how `Among all the Gallic peoples generally speaking, there are three sets of men who are held in exceptional honour; the Bards, the Vates and the Druids ...', and that `not only the Druids, but others as well, say that men's souls and also the universe, are indestructible, although both fire and eater will at some time prevail over them ...'.