Caesar's Gallic war: (Allen and Greenough's edition), Libri 1-4Ginn, 1904 - 430 pagine |
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akin āre ārī Ariovistus army Arverni atque Atrebates ātus Aulerci āvī battle Belgae bellum Cæsar Caesarem camp castra causa cavalry Celtic CHAP chapter on military clause conj disc Diviciacus Dumnorix eius eōrum eōs erant erat esset etiam exercitum facere finis Gallia Gaul Germans gerundive habere haec Hædui Haeduis Helvetii Hence hostium indecl indir inter ipse Julius Cæsar lēgātōs legatus legion Less exactly milia neque Nervii nihil nōn nostris noun old case-form omnibus omnis one's ōnis oppidum Orgetorix ōrum partem passuum perf perh plur populi posse possent prep prob proelio pron propter quae quam quibus quid quin quō quod rebus reliqui Rhenum Roman Rōmānī sẽ Sequani sēsē sibi soldiers suā subjv Suevi sunt suōs tātis tribe tūs verb
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Pagina 132 - At all events, it seems probable that the measure of 16 feet is the distance from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall. Thus the work formed really little more than a trench with scarp higher than the counterscarp. Then the crest was fortified with a breastwork of palisades, behind which the soldiers were protected while hurling their missiles at the enemy. This entire series of works, with the force at Caesar's command, could not have occupied more than two or three days.
Pagina 1 - Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur.
Pagina 92 - Causa transeundi fuit quod ab Suebis complures annos exagitati bello premebantur et agricultura prohibebantur. Sueborum gens est longe maxima et bellicosissima Germanorum omnium. Hi centum pagos habere dicuntur, ex quibus quotannis singula milia armatorum bellandi causa ex finibus educunt. Reliqui, qui domi manserunt, se atque illos alunt. Hi rursus in vicem anno post in armis sunt, illi domi remanent.
Pagina 92 - Sed privati ac separati agri apud eos nihil est, neque longius anno remanere uno in loco incolendi causa licet.
Pagina 113 - F., filial affection, affection (for the gods or one's country, etc.), patriotism. pilum, -I, [?], N., a pestle. — Also, a javelin (the peculiar weapon of the Roman legion, with a heavy wooden shaft about 4 ft. long, and an iron head on a long iron shank, making a missile more than 6 ft. long) : pilum murale, a heavier missile of the same kind for use in siege works.
Pagina 151 - Mum or militaris, a tribune of the soldiers, a military tribune (one of six officers of each legion who had charge of the internal administration of the legion, and were also employed in various staff duties by the commander).
Pagina 55 - AYAMI], irr. vn, go, pass, march: ad saga ire (put on the garb of war, cf. "go into mourning"). eo [old dat. of is], adv., thither, there (in sense of thither). — Often translated by more def. expressions in Eng., to the place (where, etc.), on them (it, him, etc.).
Pagina 9 - Germany. alter, -era, -erum, [AL- (in alius, other) + ter (for -terus, compar. suffix)], adj. pron., the other (of two). — In plur., the other party. — Repeated (cf. alius), one the other, one another (of two), one . . . the other. — In plur., one party . . .the other. — Also, the second (of more than two), another (the second of three) : dies (the second). — Also (esp. with negatives), another (beside one's self, where all are conceived as two parties, one's self and all the rest). alternus,...
Pagina liv - Caesar checks the attempt of the Helvetians to colonize in Western Gaul, and forces them, after a bloody defeat, to return to their own territory. He then engages with a powerful tribe of Germans, who had made a military settlement in Eastern Gaul, and drives them, with their chief Ariovistus, beyond the Rhine. II. A formidable confederacy of the northern populations of Gaul is suppressed, with the almost complete extermination of the bravest Belgian tribe, the Nervii, in a battle which seems to...
Pagina 70 - Hence, a guest friend (in the peculiar relation of hospitium, which was a kind of hereditary friendship between persons of different countries, not personal, but of a family or state), a friend (of the kind above mentioned) : familiaris et hospes (a personal and family friend}.