[3659] See pp. 600-3, supra.
[3660] See pp. 706-7, supra.
[3661] Norman Conquest, iii, 399.
[3662] Dr. F. Vogel, who rightly concludes that Caesar could not have sailed on the 20th of July, has recourse to an unsatisfactory argument to prove his case. We know, he says (Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie, &c., cliii, 1896, p. 275), what misfortunes Caesar had met with in the preceding year owing to the high tide which was raised by the full moon: how then can we believe that he would have chosen the day of full moon for his second expedition? But Dr. Vogel himself argues that Caesar sailed about the 8th of July, the day after new moon. Did not the doctor forget that the tidal phenomena at full and new moon are nearly identical, and that the 8th of July was the very day on which a springtide occurred? If Caesar was himself unaware of these facts, his Gallic seamen could have enlightened him. Moreover, he must have known that at least one full moon would occur while he remained in Britain.
[3663] B. G., v, 9-10; 11, §§ 1-7.
[3664] Q. fr., iii, i, § 25.
[3665] See pp. 712-3, 726, supra.
[3666] B. G., v. 22, §§ 3-4.
[3667] Ib., 23, § 1.
[3668] Ib., 23, § 2.