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Excerpt from C. Iuli Caesaris Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII A. Hirti Commentarius VIII The Ctmmentaries on the Gallic War were published not later than 46 b.c., for Cicero notices them with admi ration in his Brutus (75, which appeared in that year. Most probably indeed they were both written and published seyeral years earlier; for it is more than un likely that Caesar would have had time for literary com position during the intense labour of the civil war, and moreover, as Mommsen says (hist. Of Rome, v, 1894, p. The book was doubtless intended [at least in part] to justify before the Roman public what Caesar had done in Gaul. I will explain this in discussing the trust worthiness of the narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.