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Copyright, 1886,
BY FRANCIS W. KELSEY.

UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

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PLAN I. Caesar's Line of Works along the Rhone below

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VI. The Siege of the Town of the Aduatuci

"VII. The Campaign against the Veneti

"VIII. Sections of the Bridge across the Rhine.

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NOTE TO TEACHERS.

THIS edition of Caesar's Gallic War aims not only to aid the pupil in gaining a practical mastery of the Latin, but also to bring before him such explanatory and illustrative matter as shall awaken his interest in what he reads, lead to an intelligent grasp of the subject-matter, and help him to form a right method of classical study. In college class-rooms the masterpieces of ancient literature are no longer read merely as exercises in parsing and translation; the same methods of broad and sympathetic, yet exact and thorough study which characterize college work may be also successfully applied in preparatory and high-school classes.

The Introduction to this edition contains a brief estimate of Caesar's life-work, viewed in its several aspects, a condensed discussion of the Roman Art of War in Caesar's time, an outline of the geography of the regions most frequently referred to in the Gallic War, and a general view of the contents of the seven books. The latter part of the Introduction may perhaps be taken up with profit in regular lessons, along with the reading of the text. There is always an advantage in the systematic study of a topic or group of topics.

In the Text consonant i has been printed instead of j. That j should be discarded from the texts of classical Latin writers is generally admitted; and most editions of all except Caesar have only i. It is far better for the pupil, however, to become accustomed to the correct orthography at the very beginning of his Latin reading, than to run the risk of being confused later on in his course by the change from j to i. The spelling of Gallic proper names has in several cases been altered, to accord with

the results of recent investigations; for the researches of Glück, Desjardins, and others have shown that many of the current spellings are wrong.

In reading Caesar with classes many teachers prefer to take up Book II. before Book I. With this in view the Notes to Book II. have been made both full and elementary, with numerous grammatical references. But for those who do not follow this plan, the Notes to Book I. also have been made full, especially on passages of indirect discourse. To guide the pupil, the editor has ventured to make some suggestions on the study of Caesar, which will be found on page 377. The importance of adopting a correct method of work at the outset cannot be overestimated. It is hoped that the table of Idioms and Phrases will be found helpful in training to both flexibility and accuracy of translation. The pupil should commit to memory the more common idioms. The Vocabulary has been prepared, as the Introduction and Notes, with the design of giving to the pupil such assistance as he needs and such knowledge as he can digest.

The teacher will find the interest and profit of the study of Caesar enhanced if, instead of reading the first four books in course, he make for his classes a series of selections, covering the best portions of the whole work. As such a course of reading, the following selections are suggested:

BOOK I., the Title and Chapter 1.

II., entire.

I., Chap. 2-54, The Wars with the Helvetii and with Ariovistus. III., Chap. 7-16, The Campaign against the Veneti.

IV., Chap. 1-36, The Expeditions to Germany and to Britain.

V., Chap. 1-23, The Second Expedition to Britain.

VI., Chap. 12-24, The Customs of the Gauls and Germans contrasted.
VII., Chap. 69-90, The Siege of Alesia.

The works to which the editor has been most indebted in the preparation of this book are the editions of Caesar by Nipperdey, Holder, Kraner, Doberenz (Dinter), Peskett, Moberly, and Long; Rüstow's Heerwesen und Kriegführung, Wagler's Hilfsbüchlein, Napoleon's Jules César, and the Géographie Historique of Desjardins. The Plates are after those of Rheinhard, with some modifications. The Plans are based upon those in Napoleon's

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