THE ATHENAEUMC. Iuli Caesaris De Bello Gallico, I-IVJulius Caesar
History
C. Iuli Caesaris De Bello Gallico, I-IV
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textCaesar’s own account of his conquest of Gaul, written in the third person as if by a neutral observer. It opens with the most famous first sentence in any Latin schoolbook: “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.” These first four books take him across the Rhine and, briefly, to Britain.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 1 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- The Latin Reading Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #218. In the public domain in the United States.