Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquītānī, tertiam quī ipsōrum linguā Celtae, nostrā Gallī appellantur. Hī omnēs linguā, īnstitūtīs, lēgibus inter sē differunt. Gallōs ab Aquītānīs Garumna flūmen, ā Belgīs Mātrona et Sēquana dīvidit. Hōrum omnium fortissimī sunt Belgae, proptereā quod ā cultū atque hūmānitāte prōvinciae longissimē absunt, minimēque ad eōs mercātōrēs saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effēminandōs animōs pertinent important, proximīque sunt Germānīs, quī trāns Rhēnum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt. Quā dē causā Helvētiī quoque reliquōs Gallōs virtūte praecēdunt, quod ferē cotīdiānīs proeliīs cum Germānīs contendunt, cum aut suīs fīnibus eōs prohibent aut ipsī in eōrum fīnibus bellum gerunt. Eōrum ūna pars, quam Gallōs obtinēre dictum est, initium capit ā flūmine Rhodanō; continētur Garumnā flūmine, Ōceanō, fīnibus Belgārum; attingit etiam ab Sēquanīs et Helvētiīs flūmen Rhēnum; vergit ad septentriōnēs. Belgae ab extrēmīs Galliae fīnibus oriuntur; pertinent ad īnferiōrem partem flūminis Rhēnī; spectant in septentriōnem et orientem sōlem. Aquītānia ā Garumnā flūmine ad Pȳrēnaeōs mōntēs et eam partem Ōceanī quae est ad Hispāniam pertinet; spectat inter occāsum sōlis et septentriōnēs.

All Gaul is divided into three parts, of which one part the Belgians inhabit, another part the Aquitani, a third part those which in their language are called Celts, in ours Gauls. All these differ in language, customs, and laws among themselves. The Garumna river separates the Gauls from the Aquitani, and the Marne and Seine separates them from the Belgians. Of all these the fiercest are the Belgians, because they are the longest absent from the culture and humanity of the province, and least often of all do the merchants come to them and bring in those things which pertain to softening the minds, and they are very closde to the Germans, who reside across the Rhine, with whom they constantly wage war. For which reason the Helvetians also surpass the rest of the Gauls in valor, because they contend with the Germans in almost daily battles, when they either hold them back from their own borders or themselves wage war in their borders. Of these one part, which the Gauls are said to occupy, takes its beginning by the Rhone river; it is contained by the Garumna river, Oceanus, and the borders of Belgium; it also borders, from the side of the Sequani and the Helvetians, the Rhine river; it stretches to the north. The Belgians rise from the farthest borders of Gaul; they extend to the lower part of the Rhine river; they look into the north and the rising sun. Aquitania stretches by the Garumna river toward the Pyrenaean mountains and the part of Oceanus which is near Hispanis; it looks between the setting sun and the north.