Julius Caesar
The Gallic War
Translated by W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, 1869
What this is
Caesar’s own account of nine years of campaigning in Gaul, Germany and Britain, written in the third person as despatches to Rome. Books I to VII are his; Book VIII was added after his death by Aulus Hirtius, who says so in its preface.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
Headings this transcription lacks
Book I: 20, 41; Book II: 27; Book IV: 1, 34; Book VI: 3, 10, 28, 38, 40; Book VII: 70, 89, 90; Book VIII: 3, 4, 10, 11, 29, 46. In each case the text is not missing — it runs on inside the chapter before it, because the heading did not survive the transcription. Nothing has been supplied.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.