_Practice of Scalping among the Scythians, &c_. (Vol. ii., p.
141.).--Your correspondent T.J. will find in Livy, x. 26., that the
practice of scalping existed among the Kelts.
"Nec ante ad consules ... famam ejus cladis perlatam, quam in
conspectu fuere Gallorum equites pectoribus equorurn suspensa
gestantes capita, et lanceis infixa ovantesque moris sui
carmine."