Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[1301] See pp. 530-1, infra.

[1302] See pp. 595-6, 651, 664-5, infra.

[1303] See pp. 525-8, 657-9, infra.

[1304] See pp. 600-3, infra.

[1305] B. G., iii, 14, § 4. Cf. C. Torr, Ancient Ships, 1894, p. 59.

[1306] M. le Contre-Amiral Serre, Les marines de guerre de l’ant., 1885, p. 36. Naves longae were not necessarily even decked (B. C., i, 56, § 1; iii, 7, § 2).

[1307] See pp. 587-8, infra.

[1308] See pp. 600-3, infra.

[1309] E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, iii, 1875, p. 399. The minute details which Mr. F. H. Appach (C. J. Caesar’s Brit. Expeditions, 1868, pp. 57-8, 99, 107-8) gives as to Caesar’s order of sailing both in 55 and 54 B.C. are imaginary: in saying this I have the support of Capt. Iron, the harbour-master of Dover. Moreover, if, as Mr. Appach conjectures, the transports had been drawn up for the disembarkation in 55 B.C. in two lines, one behind the other, the men, in attempting to disembark from the rear line, would have been drowned. See B. G., iv, 24, § 2, 25, § 3, and p. 673, infra.

[1310] In regard to Caesar’s expression—(III. fere vigilia) solvit (B. G., iv, 23, § 1), see Prof. R. Y. Tyrrell’s Correspondence of Cicero, i, 1885, p. 193, with which cf. B. C., iii, 102, § 7.