Bellum Gallicum (Books II, III IV) (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Bellum Gallicum (Books II, III IV)

This edition has been prepared with a special view to the needs of University matriculants, Pass and Honor, and Junior Leaving candidates. The aim has been, not to produce atreatise on Latin Grammar or Prose, but to supply what material the teacher and the student will find useful in connection with the particular text prescribed. The elements of grammar and the first lessons in translation both unseen and prescribed, are supposed to have been taught at an earlier stage. In this edition it will be seen that, besides the text of Books II., III. And IV, with the necessary notes, etc., abundant provision is made for practice (i) in re - translation and (2) in sight-reading. This is accomplished by a series of running exercises, based on the several chapters read, word-lists (latin-english and english-latin) for memorization and drill, and some fifty short passages for sight translation, adapted from Book VII. Of the Gallic War. These passages are graded, in their own character and in the help given, to suit both pass and honor students.

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Born into a noble family that had fallen from influence, Gaius Julius Caesar secured his future by allying himself early in his life with the popular general and senator, Gaius Marius. Although Caesar's refusal to divorce his wife Cordelia led him to flee Rome for a period, the political and military campaigns he conducted upon his return both renewed and increased his prominence. With Senators Crassus and Pompey, he formed the First Triumvirate in 60 and 59 B.C., and for the next 10 years served as governor of several Roman provinces. His decision to assume the position of Roman consul led to war, to an encounter in Egypt with Cleopatra, and ultimately to his position as dictator of Rome. His increasing popularity and power, brought about by the numerous reforms he initiated, led to his assassination by a group of conspirators who feared he would try to make himself king. Caesar left posterity his accounts of his campaigns in Gaul (modern France) and against his rival Pompey. Although the campaigns were self-serving in the extreme, they nevertheless provide an immensely valuable historical source for the last years of the Republic. His works mirror his character. He was an individual of outstanding genius and versatility: a brilliant soldier, a stylist whose lucidity reflects his clarity of vision, an inspiring leader, and a personality of hypnotically attractive charm. But the verdict of antiquity rests upon his single, altogether Roman, flaw-he could not bear to be the second man in the state. To preserve his position, he made war on his political enemies and brought down the Republic. Then, as he was incapable of restoring the republican regime, which had furnished his political contemporaries with a sense of freedom, power, and self-respect, he was stabbed to death by his own friends.

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