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The Gallic War

Name: The Gallic War
ISBN: 9780486114934

Julius Caesar,

H. J. Edwards,

224 pages
English
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The Gallic War

Julius Caesar,

H. J. Edwards,

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The only chronicle by an ancient general of his own campaigns, this historical treasure is also a work of profound literary merit. Julius Caesar's fascinating account of his conquests offers a trove of priceless details about the cultures of Gaul, Germany, and Britain during the First century B.C.—and of the great man himself.
Despite his extensive background in politics, Caesar expresses himself without hiding behind rhetoric, in an uncluttered, factual style. Vigorous, direct, and eloquent, his accounts resemble memoirs or historical outlines rather than a formal histories. His notes on cultural matters, although secondary to his attention to military affairs, offer the era's most complete picture of the settings and personalities among Celtic and German tribes. This excellent translation offers several helpful features.

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Topic

Subtopic

Military & Maritime History

Index

History

INDEX IV—SUBJECTS

Acies triplex

Africus (wind)

Agger

Agmen (column of route)

——extremum

——novissimum

——quadratum

Alarii

Alces

Ambacti(see also soldurii)

Apertum, latus

Aquila

Aquilifer

Archers. See sagittarii

Aries

Armatura, levis

Artillery. See tormenta

Auxilia

—— officers of

Baggage

——parked

Boats

Bridges(Geneva), 13 (Saône);. (Aisne);.(Rhine); (Rhine); (Loire); (Allier) (Seine); (Loire, Gallic bridge)

Britons:

chariots

country and characteristics

food

strongholds

tactics

Calones

Castella

Cavalry, use of

——in pursuit

Centuriones

——primorum ordinum

——primipili

Chariots. See esseda

Cippi

Cohors praetoria

Cohorts, detachments of

——, single

Conventus agere

Corus (wind)

Council, of war

——, Gallic

——, German

Crates

Cuneatim

Cuneus

Cuniculus

Custodiae

Decumana, porta

Decurio, equitum

Deities, Gallic

——, German

Dilectus

Discessio

Druids

Esseda, essedarii

Evocati

Excubitores

Exploratores

Fabri

Falces (murales)

Formations. See acies, agmen, cuneus, orbis, phalanx, signa, testudo

“Friend” (title conferred by Roman Senate)(Catamantaloedis) (Ariovistus, “King and Friend”); (Piso’s grandfather); (Ollovico’s father). Cf. fratres populi Romani (Aedui)

Funditores

Gauls:

character

councils

deities

factions

funerals

human sacrifices

knights

property

reckoning of time

ships

siege methods

tactics

walls

Germans:

cavalry

cavalry in Roman Army

deities

food

horses

property

tactics

Glandes

Grappling-hooks. See falces, harpagones

Greek characters, use of

Harpagones

Imperator (commander-in-chief)

Interdictio

Itinere, ex

Knights, Roman

——, Gallic

Latus apertum

Legati (staff, lieutenant-generals), I.

Labienus (pro praetore)

Titurius

Pedius, Aurunculeius Cotta, Labienus

Labienus, Titurius

Sulpicius Rufus

Labienus

Trebonius

Fabius, Munatius Plancus, Trebonius, Titurius, Cotta

Labienus

Silanus, Reginus, Sextius

L. Caesar

Antonius, Trebonius

Reginus, Caninius (Rebilus)

Sextius

Caninius

Fabius

Antonius, Trebonius, Vatinius

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