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Excerpt from Gai IVLI Caesaris De Bello Gallico: Caesar's Gallic War, Four Books This edition follows, with slight changes of orthography, the text of N ipperdey, the more important various readings being given in the notes. It is believed to be an advantage even to the youngest learner to deal with a standard text, and to know something of those variations which make the reading of an ancient classic difier from that of a mod ern author. In illustration of the narrative, constant use has been made of the more recent authorities, Mommsen, Long, Merivale, and the History of Julius Casar by Napoleon III., with the excellent school edition of Moberly. Much care has been taken, with the earlier portion especially, to furnish in the notes a guide to the thorough study of syntactical construction, for which no author is, by general consent, so well adapted as Caesar. The present volume contains the first four books of the Gallic War. A second part, when published, will contain the remaining books, with the three of the Civil War. 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.