History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 2 of 2

by Emperor of the French Napoleon III

[777] De Bello Gallico, VI. 4.

[778] De Bello Gallico, VII. 76.

[779] De Bello Gallico, V. 27.

[780] De Bello Gallico, V. 25, 54.

[781] De Bello Gallico, IV. 21.

[782] De Bello Gallico, V. 4.

[783] De Bello Gallico, VII. 33.

[784] “In the beginning of spring he convoked, according to custom, the assembly of Gaul.” (De Bello Gallico, VI. 3.)

[785] Cicero appears to fear for his wife and daughter in thinking that Cæsar’s army was filled with barbarians. (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, VII. 13, A.U.C. 705.) He wrote to Atticus that, according to Matius, the Gauls offered Cæsar 10,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry, which they would entertain at their own expense for ten years. (Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, IX, xii. 2.)

[786] “All this,” Cœlius writes to Cicero, “is not said in public, but in secret, in the little circle which you know well, sed inter paucos quos tu nosti palam secreto narrantur.” (Cœlius to Cicero, Epist. Familiar., VIII. 1.)