Caesar's Gallic war: (Allen and Greenough's edition), Libri 1-4

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Pagina 19 - Pass, infin. ir1 used with verbs to form the fut. pass. inf. 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.) : usque eo ut, to that degree that, so far that.
Pagina 68 - ... omnis, -e, [?], adj., all, the whole of (as divisible or divided, cf. totus as indivisible or not divided). — In sing., every (without emphasis on the individuals, cf. quisque, each, emphatically); celerius omni opinione (of any one) ; omni tempore, on all occasions, always ; omnes preces, every form of prayers ; omnibus rebus, everything, everything else ; per omnia, etc. (through nothing but, etc.). — In plur. as a short expression for all others.
Pagina 117 - WAR. — Early in the year 58 BC, the whole population of Helvetia (northern Switzerland), amounting to about 360,000, attempted to pass by an armed emigration through the heart of Gaul, in order to settle somewhere near the shore of the Bay of Biscay, possibly with the hope of being masters of the whole country. They were hemmed in by the great natural barriers of the Alps, the Lake of Geneva, and the Jura mountains on the south and west ; and pressed on the north by great hordes of Germans, who...
Pagina 103 - Phrases : signa convertere, wheel, change front, face about; signa inferre, advance to attack, charge ; conversa signa inferre, change front and charge ; infestis signis (for an...
Pagina 11 - Brutus Albinus, a legatus of Caesar. He distinguished himself in command of Caesar's fleet off the coast of Gaul, and afterwards in the civil war on the side of Caesar. But he joined the conspiracy against Caesar with Marcus Brutus, and was one of Caesar's assassins. He was afterwards killed in Gaul by order of Antony.
Pagina 77 - P., 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.
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 261 - ... lead away, draw away, take away, lead off, carry away (of persons or things which move of themselves). abeo, -ii, -iturus, -Ire, [ab-eo], irr.
Pagina 56 - I live, and the like. melior, see bonus. membrum, -i, [?, prob, formed with suffix -rum (N. of -rus)], N., a limb, a part of the body. memini, -isse, [perf. of ^/MAN, in mens, etc.], def. verb a., remember, bear in mind, keep in mind.

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