De bello Gallico liber primus;

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tolosa

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one of the hie opponent of the dictator Sulla. 'e

triumvirate, etWeen Caesar, Pompe an Crassus, Was

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generais Alexander the Great, or instance, Hannibal, Bonaparte have distinguished themselves at a muchearlier age than Caesar, ut the remarkable thin abouthim is that unti he was fori he had sese praeticallynothing of warfare, and et he appears ali ut ne asone of the worid' greatest soldiers. illi regar to the Gallic ars oneris perhaps tempte to thin that there he had onina horde of semi-savage barbarians o contendagainst but e must remember that the conques of Gaul as effecte by quite a mali force, hie Was

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campnigns, and Worhedimini thei present forin hilehe was in inter quariers. In his compositions a in his actions Caesar is entiret simple. He indulges in no mages, no laboured descriptions, no conventionalreflexions. The a tua me of things stand out ascitreatly as, interprete by the almes intelligenee, and

Commentaries, as an historica narrative, re a far

superior o any the Latin compositio of the indas the person o Caesar imself stand out amon his

contemporaries' 'II. PROVINCIA GOVERNMENT.

By the wor province is meant a spher of uty, especiali that assigne to a consul or praetor, ithin Whieli he exercise his imperium. The Senate decidedwhie provinces ere orae consular, hicli praetorian ;and When the consul an praetors had completo theiryear of Ome a Rome the proceede a proconsul and propraetors to their province, and stayed there so a year, uniess, a frequently appened, it a found necessa to prolong prorogare thei imperium. The suppi of

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bee made a province in B. C. II 8, and wa known

Vercellae, . C. IOI putis en to this invasion, hich

This is noti sablo a tho irs occasion on hic Rome intoriore in itis polities of Gaul proper.