Cæsar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: With the Supplementary Books Attributed to Hirtius ; Including the Alexandrian, African and Spanish WarsHenry G. Bohn, 1853 - 572 sider |
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Adrumetum Ædui Afranius Allobroges ambassadors Ambiorix Ariovistus arms army arrived Arverni attack baggage began Bellovaci besieged Bituriges brought Cæsar Caius Caius Trebonius camp Carnutes Cassius Cato cavalry centurions CHAP Cicero Cimbri cohorts command consul Corduba corn Curio danger darts death defend Deiotarus deserted despatch distance Domitius drew Dyrrachium Eburones Edui encamped endeavoured enemy enemy's engaged escaped favour fear fled fleet flight foot forage forces fortified garrison gates Gaul Germans ground guard Helvetii honour horse hostages infantry informed Italy Juba Julius Cæsar king Labienus legions lest lieutenants light-armed Lucius meantime Menapii miles Nervii night order of battle party perceived Petreius Pompey Pompey's possession prætor promised province pursued quarters rampart received rest retreat returned Rhine river Roman Rome sally Scipio senate Senones sent ships side slain soldiers Spain Suevi territories things thought town Treviri tribunes troops Ubii valour Vercingetorix victory wall whole wounded
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Side 150 - In many States you may see piles of these things heaped up in their consecrated spots ; nor does it often happen that any one, disregarding the sanctity of the case, dares either to secrete in his house things captured, or take away those deposited ; and the most severe punishment, with torture, has been established for such a deed.
Side 149 - ... inflict this torture on the innocent. " The chief deity whom they worship is Mercury ; of him they have many images, and they consider him to be the inventor of all arts, their guide in all their journeys, and that he has the greatest influence in the pursuit of wealth and the affairs of commerce. Next to him they worship Apollo and Mars, and Jupiter and Minerva ; and nearly resemble other nations in their views respecting these, as that Apollo wards off diseases, that Minerva communicates the...
Side 29 - ... it by the nature of the ground, as to afford a great facility for protracting the war, inasmuch as the river Doubs almost surrounds the whole town, as though it were traced round it with a pair of compasses. A mountain of great height shuts in the remaining space, which is not more than 600 feet...
Side 112 - The number of the people is countless, and their buildings exceedingly numerous, for the most part very like those of the Gauls: the number of cattle is great.
Side 154 - The young men harden themselves with this exercise, and practice themselves in this kind of hunting, and those who have slain the greatest number of them, having produced the horns in public to serve as evidence, receive great praise. But not even when taken very young can they be rendered familiar to men and tamed.
Side 214 - ... of the entire day, all the enemy's forces could have been destroyed. Immediately after midnight, the cavalry are sent out and overtake the rear, a great number are taken or cut to pieces, the rest by flight escape in different directions to their respective states. Vercingetorix, having convened a council the following day, declares, "That he had undertaken that war, not on account of his own...
Side 192 - ... the pursuit, until they drew nigh to the wall of the town and the gates. But then, when a shout arose in every quarter of the city, those who were at a distance being alarmed by the sudden tumult, fled hastily from the town, since they thought that the enemy were within the gates. The matrons begin to cast their clothes and silver over the wall, and bending over as far as the lower part of the bosom, with outstretched hands beseech the Romans to spare them, and not to sacrifice to their resentment...
Side 93 - These beams were bound together by timber laid over them, in the direction of the length of the bridge, and were [then] covered over with laths and hurdles; and in addition to this, piles were driven into the water obliquely, at the lower side of the bridge, and these, serving as buttresses, and being connected with every portion of the work, sustained the force of the stream: and there were others also above the bridge, at a moderate distance; that if trunks of trees or vessels were floated down...
Side 113 - Ten and even twelve have wives common to them, and particularly brothers among brothers, and parents among their children; but if there be any issue by these wives, they are reputed to be the children of those by whom respectively each was first espoused when a virgin.
Side 369 - ... more engaged on their further escape than on the defence of the camp. Nor could the troops who were posted on the battlements, long withstand the immense number of our darts, but fainting...