STORIES FROM CAESAR RETOLD THE WINTER OF
LESSON
54-53 B.C. 101
In 58 B.C. Julius Caesar became governor of northern Italy and the vast country extending from the Alps to the North Sea, and spent the next nine years in disciplining various tribes of that great territory.
Unexpected Trouble Caesar, cum in Gallia bellum gerebat, totam aestatem hostes premere solitus est, turn, ut vires mllitum conserva-
exercitum
ret,
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nam caelum earum
hlberna deducebat:
regionum hieme asperrimum est; quare ille iudicabat aestate sibi cum hostibus esse dlmicandum, reliquos autem anni menses in hibernls milites retinendos esse. Olim, cum transisset in Britanniam multosque dies cum incolis eius Insulae bellum gessisset, aestate exacta ad continentem Ibi certior factus est propter siccitatem in Gallia Itaque exercitum in partes
rediit.
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in
summam esse f rurnentl inopiam.
complures dlvisum in diversis civitatibus hiemandi causa collocavit. 1. cum: at the time when. aestatem not aetatem. The ace. " may be rendered throughout." 2. vires: do not confuse vis
and
4.
aestate exacta
vigilia 9.
deducebat
caelum
olim: freely, one year.
8.
note the tense.
F.,
climate.
asperrimum:
pared with that of omit in translating.
as
Italy.
com-
.
cf.
.
.
.
dlvisum
collocavit
versis
123
at
freely,
exacta, p. 102, 1. 8. siccitatem siccitas, -atis,
aiding, etc.
ille:
the season
drought. 11
i.e.
end of
the "very
vir.
3.
6.
lit.
freely,
what?
after diin
.
quartered upon.
civitatibus
the tribes
.
.
di-
of
