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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844,

By CROCKER AND BREWSTER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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PREFACE.

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THE text of this edition of Cæsar's Gallic War has been formed by a careful comparison of those of Lemaire, Dæhne, Eckstein, Held, Möbius, and Herzog.

The Notes are principally grammatical, and are intended to afford that kind and degree of assistance, which the student may be supposed to need on his first introduction to a Latin classic. The materials for the Notes were derived partly from repeated perusals of the text of the author for that purpose, and partly from the commentaries of the editors to whom reference has already been made, and from the Greek Metaphrasis.

Upon the Dictionary of this work, as well as upon that accompanying the editor's edition of Sallust, a revised edition of which is now in the course of publication, much time and labor have been bestowed. In each of these works, the editor has aimed to give all the information necessary for a thorough perusal of the author, and at the same time, by excluding extraneous matter, to save the student from the labor and perplexity attending the use of the larger lexicons. In addition to the common signifi

COMMENTARIES

ON THE

GALLIC WAR;

WITH A

DICTIONARY AND NOTES.

BY

PROF. E. A. ANDREWS.

Nineteenth Edition.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER,

47 Washington Street

1860.

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