De Bello Gallico Libri Septem

By Caesar, Gaius Julius

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Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	De Bello Gallico Libri Septem
Author:	Caesar, Gaius Julius
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Language:	Latin
Subject:	Non-fiction, Classics (antiquity), Ancient Texts
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, De Bello Gallico Libri Septem
Historic Publication Date:	57
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Julius Caesar, B. G. (57). De Bello Gallico Libri Septem. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

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In this book the famous Gaius Julius Caesar himself describes the seven years of his war in Gaul. When Caesar got proconsul of Gallia and Illyria in 58 B.C, the conquest of land in Gaul was an urgent need, both to improve his political standing and to calm his creditors in Rome. So Caesar claims his interest for a very large area already in the first sentence. His steps and measures always appear clear and logic, but this simplicity is the result of a strict discipline in style. Caesar really choses his words, and the list of standard words that he never or rarely uses, is astonishing. E.g. for river he only uses flumen and never fluvius or amnis. He avoids porro (furthermore), which would be no decided beginning of a sentence, and in his writings never occurs the word clades (the defeat), although this would normally be demanded by the context. It is remarkable, that still today in all the lands of his conquest the word for peace is derived from latin pax (even basque bake). This peace is no friendship between equals, which is the idea behind the german word Friede. Pax Romana implies subordination, and this concept was promoted by Caesar, first abroad and then at home. (Summary by Marilianus)

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Classics (antiquity), Ancient Texts, History, War stories