Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[3103] In regard to Caesar’s use of the word nanciscor, see H. Meusel, Lex. Caes., ii, 688-9. Long (Decline of the Roman Republic, iv, 434), commenting on the inference which Lewin draws from the word nactus, says that ‘this is not a certain conclusion’, and quotes B. G., v, 9, § 4 (repulsi ab equitatu se in silvas abdiderunt, locum nacti egregie et natura et opere munitum, quem domestici belli, ut videbatur, causa iam ante praeparaverant). I doubt whether this passage is relevant.

[3104] The Invasion of Britain, &c., 1862, pp. 39-40.

[3105] Lewin afterwards saw that if Caesar landed at Hythe, he could not have anchored off Dover, and accordingly transferred his anchorage to a point off Folkestone. See p. 635, infra.

[3106] The Invasion of Britain, &c., 1862, pp. 33-4.

[3107] Ib., p. xc.

[3108] I am glad to find that Heller (Zeitschrift für allgemeine Erdkunde, xviii, 1865, p. 111) has anticipated my argument.

[3109] Obviously it would have been invisible if Caesar had anchored off Dover. See n. 1, supra.

[3110] B. G., iv, 23, § 5.

[3111] p. 629, infra.

[3112] The Invasion of Britain, &c., 1862, p. 44.