Preface

_Ancient Classics for English Readers_

EDITED BY THE REV. W. LUCAS COLLINS, M.A.

CÆSAR

_The Volumes published of this Series contain_

HOMER: THE ILIAD, BY THE EDITOR.

HOMER: THE ODYSSEY, BY THE SAME.

HERODOTUS, BY GEORGE C. SWAYNE, M.A. Late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

The following Authors, by various Contributors, are in preparation:--

VIRGIL. HORACE. ÆSCHYLUS. SOPHOCLES. ARISTOPHANES. CICERO. JUVENAL. XENOPHON.

OTHERS WILL FOLLOW.

_A Volume will be published on the 1st of every alternate Month, price 2s. 6d._

THE COMMENTARIES OF CÆSAR

BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXX

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE

I. INTRODUCTION, 1

II. FIRST BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL.--CÆSAR DRIVES FIRST THE SWISS AND THEN THE GERMANS OUT OF GAUL.--B.C. 58, 28

III. SECOND BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL.--CÆSAR SUBDUES THE BELGIAN TRIBES.--B.C. 57, 45

IV. THIRD BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL.--CÆSAR SUBDUES THE WESTERN TRIBES OF GAUL.--B.C. 56, 54

V. FOURTH BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL.--CÆSAR CROSSES THE RHINE, SLAUGHTERS THE GERMANS, AND GOES INTO BRITAIN.--B.C. 55, 63

VI. FIFTH BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL.--CÆSAR’S SECOND INVASION OF BRITAIN.--THE GAULS RISE AGAINST HIM.--B.C. 54, 74

VII. SIXTH BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL.--CÆSAR PURSUES AMBIORIX.--THE MANNERS OF THE GAULS AND OF THE GERMANS ARE CONTRASTED.--B.C. 53, 88

VIII. SEVENTH BOOK OF THE WAR IN GAUL.--THE REVOLT OF VERCINGETORIX.--B.C. 52, 100

IX. FIRST BOOK OF THE CIVIL WAR.--CÆSAR CROSSES THE RUBICON.--FOLLOWS POMPEY TO BRUNDUSIUM.--AND CONQUERS AFRANIUS IN SPAIN.--B.C. 49, 116

X. SECOND BOOK OF THE CIVIL WAR.--THE TAKING OF MARSEILLES.--VARRO IN THE SOUTH OF SPAIN.--THE FATE OF CURIO BEFORE UTICA.--B.C. 49, 131

XI. THIRD BOOK OF THE CIVIL WAR.--CÆSAR FOLLOWS POMPEY INTO ILLYRIA.--THE LINES OF PETRA AND THE BATTLE OF PHARSALIA.--B.C. 48, 146

XII. CONCLUSION, 174

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