94. Q. Who were esteemed the most fierce and warlike of all the Belgian nations? A. The Nervians.
95. Q. After Cæsar’s successful campaign against the Belgian tribes, what was decreed for his victories? A. A thanksgiving of fifteen days, an unprecedented honor.
96. Q. In the third book an account is given of a naval warfare against whom? A. The Veneti.
97. Q. What is the first thing of commanding interest in the fourth book of Cæsar’s “Commentaries?” A. The case of alleged perfidy, with enormous undoubted cruelty, practiced by Cæsar against his German enemies.
98. Q. What famous feat on the part of Cæsar is narrated in the fourth book? A. That of throwing a bridge across the river Rhine.
99. Q. What were the dimensions of this bridge? A. It was fourteen hundred feet long, furnishing a solid roadway thirty or forty feet wide.
100. Q. With the relation of what enterprise does the fourth book close? A. The invasion by Cæsar of Great Britain.
CHAUTAUQUA NORMAL COURSE.
Season of 1884.