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CAESAR

GALLIC WAR, BOOKS I-V

EDITED

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, SYNONYMS, WORD-
GROUPS, AND VOCABULARY

BY

HAROLD W. JOHNSTON, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF LATIN IN THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY

AND

FREDERICK W. SANFORD, A.B.

FELLOW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

οὐ πόλλ ̓ ἀλλὰ πολύ

BENJ. H. SANBORN & CO.

BOSTON, U.S. A.

Educ T 1000.471.906

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

GINN & COMPANY
MARCH 17, 1927

COPYRIGHT, 1906,

BY HAROLD W. JOHNSTON

AND

FREDERICK W. SANFORD.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE.

THE portion of Caesar's Gallic War most commonly read in schools comprises the first four books. Many teachers, however, desire additional material from which to make selections in place of the portions that are particularly difficult or lacking in interest. The fifth book contains three leading narratives, each complete in itself, the Second Campaign in Britain, the Defeat of Sabinus and Cotta, and the Siege of Cicero's Camp. The first is of peculiar interest to English-speaking peoples, the second and third are singularly graphic, while all are fairly simple in style. This book has therefore been included in the present edition, as being well adapted to meet the purpose mentioned above.

The text is based upon that of Meusel's School Edition, but where portions are inclosed in brackets as probably not genuine, in some cases the words have been omitted, in others the brackets; otherwise, with few exceptions, only certain changes in orthography and punctuation have been admitted. The quantity of long vowels has been marked in conformity with other volumes of the Student's Series.

To facilitate the acquiring of a vocabulary, each word occurring more than once in Books I-V, with the exception of proper nouns, has been printed in heavy-faced type at the place of first occurrence. A third of these

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