SOUTHERN GAUL. — The campaign in Aquitania was made merely for strategic reasons, was not provoked by any attack or threat of war, and appears to have been quite unnecessary （see note on 82 3） as well as difficult and dangerous. The Aquitani had no strong military league or combination, but consisted of small, isolated clans, and were besides of more industrial habit than the Gauls, being good miners and engineers. As a mere narrative, however, this is an interesting episode of the war. [*] 88.17. P. Crassus, etc.: cf. 82 2-5. [*] 88.18. ante dictum est: i.e. in 2 7-10. Omit bracketed words in lines 18-20. [*] 88.19. tertia pars: these statements show extreme ignorance, as would be natural （cf. the account of Britain, Bk. v. chs. 12-14）. [*] 88.21. Praeconinus, Manlius: these defeats were twenty-two years before （B.C. 78）, when the Aquitani united with Sertorius, the leader of the Marian party, who held Spain for six years against Rome. （See Plutarch's "Life of Sertorius."） [*] 88.26. Tolosa et Narbone: Tolosa was an old Gallic town; Narbo, a Roman colony established by the policy of Gaius Gracchus, B.C. 118. It became the capital of the Roman province, to which it gave its name, Narbonensis. [*] 88.27. his regionibus: cat. after finitimae, which agrees with civitates. Omit [ex]. [*] 88.28. nominatim evocatis: i.e. veterans who had served their term, but were willing to reenlist. See chapter on military affairs, IV. a. — Sotiatium: south of the Garonne, southeast of the modern Bordeaux; the name remains in the modern Sôs.
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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
book 2
BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.
BOOK FOURTH. — B.C. 55.
BOOK FIFTH.—B.C. 54.
BOOK VI. BOOK SIXTH.—B.C. 53.
BOOK SEVENTH.—B.C. 52.
Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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