Description The Gallic Wars, "De Bello Gallico" by Caius Julius Caesar.
But, if it had been Lucan\'s purpose (as possibly, with a view to Pompey\'s benefit, in some respects it was) utterly and extravagantly to falsify the character of the great Dictator, by no single trait could he more effectually have fulfilled that purpose, nor in fewer words, than by this.
The famous line, "Nil actum reputans si quid superesset agendum," is a fine feature of the real character, finely expressed.
This was Lucan, who has nowhere exhibited more brilliant rhetoric, nor wandered more from the truth, than in the contrasted portraits of Caesar and Pompey.
The character of the First Caesar has perhaps never been worse appreciated than by him who in one sense described it best; that is, with most force and eloquence wherever he really did comprehend it.
Concurrently, "Gaul" was also used in common parlance as a synonym for "uncouth" or "unsophisticated" as Romans saw Celtic peoples as uncivilized compared with Rome.
As the Roman Republic made inroads deeper into Celtic territory and conquered more land, the definition of "Gaul" shifted.
Generally, Gaul included all of the regions that Romans had not conquered or administered or which were primarily inhabited by Celts; except for the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis (modern-day Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon), which had already been conquered in Caesar\'s time, therefore encompassing the rest of modern France, Belgium, Western Germany, and parts of Switzerland.
The "Gaul" that Caesar refers to is ambiguous, as the term had various connotations in Roman writing and discourse during Caesar\'s time.
In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting the Germanic peoples and Celtic peoples in Gaul that opposed Roman conquest.
Commentaries on the Gallic War, also Bellum Gallicum, English: Gallic War, is Julius Caesar\'s firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative.
Description The Gallic Wars, "De Bello Gallico" by Caius Julius Caesar
