FRESH RISINGS OF THE GAULS.—The remaining events of this campaign are among the most critical of the entire Gallic war, and show to what extreme peril Caeasar had exposed his conquests by his expedition across the Channel. They serve, besides, to bring out in very marked relief the personal qualities of his several lieutenants. As a series of episodes, this Book is, in fact, the most interesting of the eight. The Romans did not visit Britain again till A.D. 43, in the reign of Claudius. READING REFERENCES ON THE GALLIC REBELLIONS. Dodge's Caesar, chap. 13. Fowler's Julius Caesar, chap. 13 （first part）. Froude's Caesar, chap. 17. Holmes's Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, pp. 76-93. Merivale's Hist. of Rome, Vol. 1. pp. 390-398. Mommsen's Hist. of Rome, Vol. IV. pp. 317-323. Napoleon's Caesar, Vol. II. chap. 8 （last part）; see also Appendix D, on Caesar's Lieutenants. Trollope's Caesar, chap. 6 （last part）. [*] 133.10. Samarobrivae （locative）: the chief town of the Ambiani, whose name is found in the modern Amiens. [*] 133.12. aliter ac: i.e. distributing them where supplies were most abundant, not where there was most danger of disturbance, as in previous years. The location of these camps has been much disputed. The most common view puts Fabius at St. Pol, Cicero at Charleroy （or possibly Namur）, Roscius at Séez in Normandy, Labienus on the Ousthe （in Luxembourg）, Crassus, Plancus, and Trebonius not far from Amiens, Sabinus and Cotta at Tongres. These places do not quite agree with the description unless we take the hundred mile limit （133 29） as the radius of a circle, a meaning which seems improbable. But this division is perhaps near enough. [*] 133.15. ducendam: gerundive expressing purpose; cf. faciendas, l. 2 （§ 500. 4 (294. d); B. 337. 7. b. 2; G. 430; H. 622 (544 2. N. 2); H-B. 605. 2）.—Q. Ciceroni: the younger brother of the orator, and a man of tougher fibre and of great military and executive ability. He had joined Caesar's army that very year and had taken part in the expedition to Britain. Quintus, like his brother Marcus, sided with Pompey in the Civil War, and met a similar fate in the same year （B. C. 43） at the command of the triumvirs. [*] 133.20. proxime, latest. This was the 14th legion, enrolled in B.C. 57.—trans Padum: i.e. from Rome to the north. [*] 133.21. cohortis: these must have been troops not organized into a legion, probably provincials. [*] 133.25. inopiae: dat.with mederi; § 367. b (227. b); G. 346. N. 4; H. 385. ii. N. 3; H-B. 364. 5. [*] 133.29. quoad … cognovisset: cf. 128 24. Why is the indic. used there and the subjv. here?
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