CAESAR. SCENES FROM THE FIFTH AND SIXTH BOOKS OF THE GALLIC WAR. Edited, for the use of Schools, BY C. COLBECK, M.A., LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; ASSISTANT MASTER London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1881. HARVARD 40X15 LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. PREFACE. THIS little edition has no pretensions to originality. It is an attempt to make the most for young_boys of an interesting portion of Caesar-the best Latin book, I believe, for those who have just emerged from the Principia. In the Introduction I have tried to make the subject-matter interesting to boys, by giving fully the setting of the picture. In the notes I have tried to take them to their grammars and to the study of the language. Where readings differ, I have in all cases chosen the easiest, and I have intentionally made no mention of other interpretations. Kraner's excellent School Edition has long been so well known to me that I could not, had I wished, have been independent of its help. My other authorities are Napoléon's Histoire de Jules César,' Mommsen, Thierry's 'Histoire des Gaulois,' and Mr. Froude's Caesar." 6 For one of the illustrations and the Map of the Campaign I am indebted to the Atlas to Napoléon's work, and for others of the illustrations to Max Jähn's Atlas zur Geschichte des Kriegswesens.' HARROW, December 1880. CONTENTS. PAGE MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. GAUL IN CAESAR'S TIME. [To be placed at the end.] INTRODUCTION. § 1. THE CONQUEST OF GAUL. Rome. If 10 IN the first century before Christ the only great power in the civilized world was the Roman Republic. The victories of its armies and the relentless grip of its government had brought within the circle of its empire, first the adjoining 5 tribes of Italy, then the whole peninsula of Italy itself; then Sicily and Sardinia, Spain, Africa, Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt. Nations and kings one after another fought and fell before the resistless courage and perseverance of Rome. aggression was forced upon her at first, long before the time we are speaking of it became her settled policy. Around the shores of the Midland Sea no rival might challenge the supremacy of Rome. She offered, or boasted that she offered, peace and good 15 government to all the known world; but it was at the sword's point, and it was to the sword that she appealed only too readily in all disputes. It was not a mere boast. Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos "To spare the conquered and war down 20 the proud "was no unworthy device for a great nation in ages when the rights of nationalities to independence did not exist, even as the dream of |