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History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 2 of 2

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French · 1866

passage 325 of 399 · BOOK III. > CHAPTER X. (68/142)

[45] Strabo, IV., p. 147.--Diodorus Siculus, V. 26.

[46] Cæsar, after having said (V. 3) that the forests of the Ardennes extended from the Rhine to the frontier of the Remi, ad initium Remorum*, adds (VI. 29) that it extended also towards the Nervii, *ad Nervios. Nevertheless, according to chapter 33 of book VI., we believe that this forest extended, across the country of the Nervii, to the Scheldt. How otherwise could Cæsar have assigned to the forests of the Ardennes a length of 500 miles, if it ended at the eastern frontier of the Nervii? This number is, in any case, exaggerated, for from the Rhine (at Coblentz) to the Scheldt, towards Ghent and Antwerp, it is but 300 kilomètres, or 200 miles.

[47] De Bello Gallico, VIII. 5.

[48] “Citra flumen Ararim ... reliqui sese fugæ mandarunt atque in proximas silvas abdiderunt.” (De Bello Gallico, I. 12.)

[49] “Menapii propinqui Eburonum finibus, perpetuis paludibus silvisque muniti.” (De Bello Gallico, VI. 5.)

[50] “(Morini et Menapii) ... silvas ac paludes habebant, eo se suaque contulerunt.” (De Bello Gallico, III. 28.)

[51] “(Sugambri) primos Eburonum fines adeunt ... non silvæ morantur.” (De Bello Gallico, VI. 35.)

[52] Strabo, p. 163, edit. Didot.

[53] De Bello Gallico, IV. 2.

[54] Strabo, pp. 121, 155, 170, edit. Didot.

[55] “Carpenta Gallorum.” (Florus, I. 13)--“Plurima Gallica (verba) valuerunt, ut reda ac petorritum.” (Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria, lib. I., cap. v. 57.)--“Petorritum enim est non ex Græcia dimidiatum, sed totum transalpibus, nam est vox Gallica. Id scriptum est in libro M. Varronis quarto decimo Rerum Divinarum; quo in loco Varro, quum de petorrito dixisset, esse id verbum Gallicum dixit.” (Aulus Gellius, XV. 30.)--“Petoritum et Gallicum vehiculum est, et nomen ejus dictum esse existimant a numero quatuor rotarum. Alii Osce, quod hi quoque petora quatuor vocent. Alii Græce, sed αἱλικὡς dictum.” (Festus, voc. Petoritum, p. 206, edit. Müller.)--“Belgica esseda, Gallicana vehicula. Nam Belga civitas est Galliæ in qua hujusmodi vehiculi repertus est usus.” (Servius, Commentaries on the Georgics of Virgil, lib. III. v. 204.--Cæsar, De Bello Gallico, IV. 33, and passim.

[56] De Bello Gallico, II. 5.

[57] De Bello Gallico, I. 7.

[58] De Bello Gallico, VII. 11.

[59] De Bello Gallico, VII. 34, 53.

[60] De Bello Gallico, VII. 58.

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