C. Iulii Caesaris - De Bello Gallico - Liber Tertius (Paperback)

Text extracted from opening pages of book: BELL'S ILLUSTRATED CLASSICAL SERIES EDITED v K C, MAKCHANT, M, l V 1' Mi'i iitei' CAESAR; DE BELLO GALLICO BOOK III A EOMAST TROPHY, ( From Trajan's Column, ) _ C IULII CAESARIS DE BELLO GALLICO LIBER TERTIUS EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOT BS BY F. H. COLSON, M. A HEAD MASTER OP PLYMOUTH COLLEGE LATE FELLOW OP ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE G. M. GWYTHER, M. A. ASSISTANT MASTER IN THE SAME COLLEGE LATE SCHOLAR OF JESt'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGC LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN 1899 BELL'S ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS, These volumes are issued in three forms 1 WITH Noras AND VOCABULARY COMPLETE, i& 2 WITHOUT VOCABULARY, 15 6& 3 WITH VOCABULARY, BUT WITHOUT NOTES, x& OXFORD* HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Caesar and his Book i A Model Military History .... i Its Subject ........ 2 Its Author ........ 2 The One Great Military Autobiography . . 5 Caesar's Position in History 6 Historical Value of the Book ... 7 The Gallic War . . 8 Campaigns of the Third Book . . ., i o The Roman Army ( By A. C. Liddell, M. A.) . 13 TEXT 3* NOTES 65 IDIOMS AND GRAMMATICAL REFERENCES ... 93 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES VOCABULARY BUST OF CAESAK ( In the Museum at Naples ) LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE A ROMAN TROPHY ( Fiom Trajan's Column) Frontispiece BUST OF CAESAR. ( Fiom. a colossal bust in the Museum at Naples) . vi STANDARD BEARER ( JFiomTiajan's Column), 23 PU. N OF A BOMAN CAMP. ( Fiom various sources) . 24 BATTERING BAM AND VINEAE* ( From the Triumphal Arch of Septunms Sevorub) . 37 TESTUDO From the Antonme Column 29 BALLISTA ( From various sources) * 30 TRENCH AND BAMPART OP A FoRTiriE CAMP, 32 BARBARIAKS ATTACKING A ROMAN FORT, ( Fiom Trajan's Column) . 36 KOMAN SHIPS is A HARBOtni ( From a bas-relief) 42 BOMAN SHIPS. ( From bas-reliefs and the Vatican Vergil), . . 45 SECTION SHOWINO POSITION OP KOWERS ON ONE SIDE OF A SHIP WITH THREE BANKS OF OARS, . 46 A SEA-ftcBiT . USING THE FALX TO CTJT THE RlGGDTG. From bas-reliefs and the Vatican Vergil, the fafa fiom a Cameo and from descriptions) . . 49 A GENERAL ADDRESSING HIS SOLDIERS* ( Fiom a bionze com) 53 viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PAQH A CAVALRY ACTION ( FiomTiajan's Column) . 54 THE AGGER BEING ADVANCED AGAINST A TOWN ( Adapted from the model in the Museum at St. Grormam and othci souices) 57 PERSONAL BAGGAGE CARRIED BY A ROMAN SOLDIER ON THE MARCH ( From Trajan's Column) 59 A ROMAN CAVALRY SOLDIER ( Fiom a lohef on a grave-stone) . .61 BURNING THE VILLAGES ( From tho Antonine Column 63 SECTION OF TRENCH AND RAMPART ., 66 MAPS G-ALLIA . To face p. i SCENE OF G-ALBA'S OPERATIONS IN THE ALPS . 34 SCENE OF THE OPERATIONS AGAINST THE VEN& TJ 38 NOTE Although both editors, whose names appoar on tho title-page, are responsible for this book, it is only right to state that the main part of the work has been clone by Mr Q-wythei, INTRODUCTION Caesar and his Book CAESAR'S histoiy of the Gallic wai is one of the most reritarkable booh ever wntteu If the wntei ha, d been distinguished only as a writei if he had not been a nun who played a great part in history it would still be a very reniaikable book A Model Military History In the first place it may be regarded as a model of what a military history should be. Straightforwardness, clearness, teiseness, and combined with these graceful ness, aie its leading characteristics, No attempt indeed is made at eloquence Caesarhimself called it * Com mentaries, ' meaning peiiaps that it was to be regarded rather as an outline than a literary history, as if he was just stipptymg the raw material, which a great historian might work up. But if this is the meaning of the name, however favourably it may show Caesar's modesty, it is not reqjly a good name, The book is far more than