Caesar de Bello Gallico Iii with Introduction Notes and Vocabulary

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Page 24 - ... the troops, as can be seen from such phrases as signa ferre, to advance, signa referre, to retreat. The legionary standard was the aquila, a silver or sometimes even a gold eagle with outstretched wings, perched on a pole. The manipular signa were silver poles adorned with various badges, such as images of animals and metal discs. Standard-bearers often wore the skin of a wolf or some other wild animal instead of a helmet. The highest award for bravery was the corona civica, a crown of oakleaves,...
Page 49 - Nam ut ad bella suscipienda Gallorum alacer ac promptus est animus, sic mollis ac minime resistens ad calamitates perferendas mens eorum est.
Page 25 - ... about 7 feet long with wooden shafts and long heads of fairly soft iron, which bent when they reached their mark, so that they could not be used again ; they could be thrown up to a distance of 40 yards. Legionaries on the march, in the agmen, were called impediti, ' encumbered ,' and carried, besides their arms, a sarcina, or pack, weighing about 45 Ibs. and containing two weeks...
Page 83 - I or r is the second consonant the syllable can sometimes be long or short, eg patris) ; these long vowels are not marked. All other long vowels are marked, and any unmarked vowel can be assumed to be short, unless it comes under the rules just given.
Page 15 - He is said to have been tall of stature, with a fair complexion, shapely limbs, a somewhat full face, and keen black eyes ; sound of health, except that towards the end he was subject to sudden fainting fits and to nightmare as well. He was twice attacked by the 'falling sickness
Page 42 - Erant eius modi fere situs oppidorum, ut posita in extremis lingulis promontoriisque neque pedibus aditum haberent cum ex alto se aestus incitavisset, quod bis accidit semper horarum xii spatio, neque navibus, quod rursus minuente aestu naves in vadis afflictarentur.
Page 99 - ... few paulatim, adv. little by little, gradually paulisper, adv. for a little while paulum, n.
Page 95 - ... ita, adv. so, thus. Italia, -ae, f. Italy. itaque, conj. and so, therefore, accordingly.
Page 17 - H (57 BC). The Belgae conspire against Caesar, who crosses the Axona (Aisne) and prepares for a battle near Bibrax, but the enemy disperse through lack of food. The Bellovaci submit but the Nervii fight a desperate battle in which Caesar is only just victorious. He accepts the surrender of the Aduatuci, who suddenly attack and on being defeated are sold into slavery. Crassus reports the submission of the maritime tribes of north-west Gaul.
Page 19 - BC), written by Aulus Hirtius. The last campaign, when resistance finally ceases, and the final year of Caesar's proconsulship, which is spent in reconciling the Gallic tribes to being governed by Rome. THE GAULS The population of Gaul was mainly Celtic ; a people called the Celts migrated into that country from across the Rhine in about the eighth century BC Some of them moved into northern Italy about...

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