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Commentaries of Caesar (Ancient Classics for English Readers Vol 4)
Commentaries of Caesar - Ancient Classics for English Readers Vol 4 Author:Anthony Trollope General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons Subjects: History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Rome History / World Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ill... more »ustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. FOURTH BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL. -- OESAR CROSSES THE SHINE, SLAUGHTERS THE GERMANS, AND GOES INTO BRITAIN. -- B. C. 55. In the next year certain Germans, Usipetes and others, crossed the Ehine into Gaul, not far from the sea, as Caesar tells us. He tells us again, that when he drove the Germans hack over the river, it was near the confluence of the Meuse and the Ehine. When we remember how difficult it was for Caesar to obtain information, we must acknowledge that his geography as to the passage of the Ehine out to the sea, and of the junction of the Ehine and the Meuse by the Waal, is wonderfully correct. The spot indicated as that at which the Germans were driven into the river would seem to be near Bommel in Holland, where the Waal and the Meuse join their waters, at the head of the island of Bommel, where Fort St Andre stands, or stood. Caesar speaks of the confluence of the Ehine and the "Mosa" as the spot at which he drove the Germans into the river, -- and in various passages, speaking of the Mosa, clearly means the Meuse. It appears, however, to be the opinion of English scholars who have studied the topography of Caesar's Those wonderful Suevi, among whom the men. alternately fight and plough, year and year about, caring more, however, for cattle than they do for corn, who are socialists in regard to land, having no private property in their fields, -- who, all of them, from their youth u...« less