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First Six Books of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War
First Six Books of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War Author:Julius Caesar Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: they afterwards admitted to the same state of rights and freedom as themselves. Chap. XXIX.In the camp of the Hel- vetii, lists were found, drawn up, in Gree... more »k characters, and were brought to Caesar, in which an estimate had been drawn up, name by name, of the number which had gone forth' from their country of those who were able to bear arms; and likewise the boys, the old men, and the women, separately. Of all which items the total was : Of the Helvetii [lit. of the heads of the Holvetii] 263,000 Of the Tulingi 36,000 Of the Latobrlgi 14,000 Of the Ilaurdci 23,000 Of the Boii 32,000 The sum of all amounted to . . 368,000 Out of these, such as could bear arms [amounted] to about 92,000. henthe census of those who returned home was taken, as Caesar had commanded, the number was found to be 110.000. Chap. XXX. When the war with the Helvetii was concluded, ambassadors from almost all parts of Gaul, the chiefs of states, assembled to congratulate Caesar, [saying] that they were well aware, that, although he had taken vengeance on the Helvetii in war, for the old wrongs done by them to the Roman people, yet that circumstance had happened no less to the benefit of the land of Gaul than of the Roman people, because the Helvetii, while their affairs were most flourishing, had quitted their country with the design of making war upon the whole of Gaul, and seizing the government of it, and selecting, out of a great abundance, that spot for an abode which they should judge to be the most convenient acd most productive of all Gaul, and ho.d the rest of the states as tributaries. They requested that they might be allowed to proclaim an assembly of the whole of Gaul for a pa' ticular day, and to do that with Caasai's permission, [stating] that they had some...« less