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.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. The Gallic War shares wording with 1 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
the day before the ides of AprilBook 1 and Book 13
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
The Gallic War shares fewer than twenty of the sixty counted names with any other book here. That is a fact about its vocabulary and nothing more; a book can be deeply indebted to another and share almost no names with it.
Translator: McDevitte & Bohn, 1869. Source: Gutenberg 10657.
The text here is the translation of W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Harper & Brothers, 1869, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 10657, set unaltered.
This transcription lacks a heading for nineteen of the 403 chapters; in each case the text is not missing but runs on inside the chapter before it, and the title page lists which. The Civil War, printed in the same volume, is not included here.
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