Anthony Trollope

Name: The Commentaries of Cæsar — SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL
Author: Anthony Trollope

The Commentaries of Cæsar — SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL (1870)

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“The Commentaries of Cæsar — SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL”, published in 1870, is a work by Anthony Trollope. It explores elements such as Cæsar, Remi and Belgians.

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Anthony Trollope, The Commentaries of Cæsar — SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL (1870)

“ The nation is all but destroyed, so that the very name can but hardly remain;—so at least we are told here, though we hear of them again as a tribe by no means destroyed or powerless. When out of six hundred senators there are but three senators left, when from sixty thousand fighting men the army has been reduced to scarcely five hundred, Cæsar throws the mantle of his mercy over the survivors. He allows them even to go and live in their own homes, and forbids their neighbours to harass them. ”

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Anthony Trollope, The Commentaries of Cæsar — SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL (1870)

“ At first they fight a little round the walls of their town; but when they see what terrible instruments Cæsar has, by means of which to get at them over their very walls,—how he can build up a great turret at a distance, which, at that distance, is ludicrous to them, but which he brings near to them, so that it overhangs them, from which to harass them with arrows and stones, and against which, so high is it, they have no defence—then they send out and beg for mercy. Surely, they say, Cæsar and the Romans must have more than human power. ”

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Anthony Trollope, The Commentaries of Cæsar — SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL (1870)

“ We cannot in these days understand how one brave man at such a moment should be so much more effective than another, how he should be known personally to the soldiers of an army so large, how Cæsar should have known the names of the centurions,—for he tells us that he addresses them by name;—and yet it reads like truth ”

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Anthony Trollope, The Commentaries of Cæsar — SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL (1870)

“ They agree to go home, each to his own country, and from thence to proceed to the defence of any tribe which Cæsar might attack. "So," says Cæsar, as he ends the story of this little affair, "without any danger on our part, our men killed as great a number of theirs as the space of the day would admit." When the sun set, and not till then, came an end to the killing,—such having been the order of Cæsar.
That these Belgians had really formed any intention of attacking the Roman province, or even any Roman ally, there is no other proof than that Cæsar tells us that they had all conspired. ”

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Anthony Trollope, The Commentaries of Cæsar — SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL (1870)

“ A part,—a third,—are cunningly kept back; and when Cæsar enters the town, they who have kept their arms, and others unarmed, try to escape from the town. They fight, and some thousands are slain. Others are driven back, and these are sold for slaves. ”

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Anthony Trollope, The Commentaries of Cæsar — SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL (1870)

“ But whatever might be their sin, or what the lack of sin on their part, he is determined to go on with the war till he has subjugated them altogether. On the very next day he attacks the Suessiones, and gets as far as Noviodunum,—Noyons. ”

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Anthony Trollope, The Commentaries of Cæsar — SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL (1870)

“ They trust solely to infantry in battle, and know nothing of horses. Against the cavalry of other nations, however, they are wont to protect themselves by artificial hedges, which they make almost as strong as walls.
Cæsar in attacking the Nervii had eight legions, and he tells us how he advanced against them "consuetudine suâ,"—after his usual fashion. For some false information had been given to the Nervii on this subject, which brought them into considerable trouble. He sent on first his cavalry, then six legions, the legions consisting solely of foot-soldiers ”

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