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How to define the main divisions of each of the 7 (or 8) books of the Commentarii de Bello Gallico written by Julius Caesar? Are they some sort of paragraphs or just portions that he wrote in different moments? Thanks

I am currently working through LLPSI Familia Romana and I plan to be finished around Christmas. For the holidays I am getting De Bello Gallico and LLPSI pars II and my question is if I would be able to make my way through Caesar after finishing LLPSI or if I should work through LLPSI pars II before starting on DBG? Thanks!

If the little vermin turns any fiction it sits on into reality, casting the author as its protagonist, then I'm ready to make our world a better place, which I'll discuss with you guys after I get the door.

I'm working my way back into Latin (had finished Ecce Romani about 4 years ago) and going through LLPSI Pars I: Familia Romana and its all coming back very quickly. I am wondering how easy Caesar's De Bello Gallico is/ at what chapter can i begin reading it? I'm heavily considering starting to buy the Loeb Classics series since I think they are a wonderful series and they have the majority of the great Latin works that'd I'd eventually read along the Latin journey (although that's WAYYY far into teh future lol). Is the Loeb series something to invest in or is there another series/collection of the Latin works that would be worth looking into?

I’ve never been a particularly strong reader. I’ve got pretty bad ADHD, so I start several books a year but I finish maybe four or five. It’s discouraging, but I still buy used books now and then in the hopes that one will keep my attention.

I bought Jennie because I liked the cover (it’s red with a cat imprinted on the spine and the cat has glowing gold painted eyes) and when I googled it I thought the plot sounded kind of fun. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s about a little boy who is hit by a car and when he wakes up he finds that he has been transformed into a cat! He meets another cat, Jennie, who looks after him and teaches him how to be a cat.

I read the whole thing in three days and now I can’t stop crying. I finished it this afternoon and cried so hard I almost made myself sick. I barely made it through work without thinking about it, and now I can’t sleep because I keep feeling like part of me is still in the world of that book and I miss it so badly. It seems so silly since I think it is a book for children, but it really affected me. As a non-reader, I just don’t understand how people can jump from one book straight to the next. I know this feeling will pass but at the moment I feel like I’ll never be able to read another book. I’m just really shaken; I cry at movies all the time, but I’ve never cried from reading a book before.

Anyone else get this way when they read?

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Having trouble pinpointing the locations of all the tribes and battles in my head. Thanks!

I just finished reading through the Ørberg edition of Caesar's "Comentarii De Bello Gallico," immediately following Familia Romana. It was tough at points and took some time getting used to Caesar's writing style.

However, I found it weird how this edition is abridged, as it contains only books I, IV, and V. While these cover a lot of memorable events, from the Helvetian migration to Caesar's two invasions of Britain, we don't even get to Vercingetorix or Alesia, probably the most well-known part of the Gallic Wars.

I'm just wondering what the logic is behind abridging this edition in this way. Are the other books a bit too difficult for the post-FR student? Maybe the historical content is too obscure, complex, or even boring for the first-time reader? Or did the publisher just want to cap it at a certain page limit?

Vocabulary: https://files.catbox.moe/jpaek4.ods

Commentarii pdf: https://geoffreysteadman.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/caesarbk1-beta-27mar13.pdf

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Does anyone know of a good recording of the entire book of de bello gallico in classical pronunciation?

Hi everyone,

I’ve seen on College Board that we have to read sections of both books, is it accurate or do we have to read them entirely?

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TLDR at the bottom.

Title says it all. I mean, the world building is just phenomenal. Caesar just ties it into the story so well. He literally says “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur.” Not only did he use tricolon crescens to show off his literary knowledge. He even employed interlocked word order to impress the Roman citizens to whom he was writing. There’s just so much depth that I could go on for hours about it.

And did I mention the world building? According to the brilliant author Caesar, “Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt.” There’s diversity in the story. It’s not just some basic dichotomy of “us and them.” It’s not just black and white. Not to mention the tricolon crescens used to describe these three major tribes.

And who could forget about the world building? Caesar writes that “Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.” He describes in detail one of the most fierce tribes in Gaul, cementing them as a worthy adversary for our protagonist early on the story. He even uses litotes to emphasize the fact that the Belgae are visited by merchant least often.

Caesar is such a great narrator. He has authority, knowledge, and (most importantly) charm. He is just such a great protagonist in this story. I mean, he’s just so much better than Holding Cauliflower from J. D. Salisbury’s “masterpiece” Catcher in the Rye. that guy is just so annoying, and he makes that book impossible to read.

TLDR - Holden Caulfield is a bad protagonist. Now give me upvotes and awards, plz.

Belgalar; Galya sınırının sonundan başlar, Ren nehrinin alçak bölümüne kadar uzanır, doğu ve kuzeye yönelir. Akitanya ise Garumna nehrinden Pirene dağlarına ve İspanya tarafındaki o okyanus parçasına uzanır: yönü batı ve kuzey arasındadır.

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Salvete omnes!

Is there an edition of De Bello Gallico, which has macrons? (I know of the LLPSI version, but i want to have an edition, which features the entire text)

As I was reading De Bello Gallico for AP Latin, I began to wonder why Caesar used a lot of ablative absolutes and indirect statements. Does anyone have an explanation for this? Is he just doing this because that's his writing style? Why?

This may be a stupid question, but how do we know that Julius Caesar is the one who actually wrote the war commentaries? What kind of evidence do we have, except people claiming he wrote them?

I recently read and really enjoyed this novel - after learning the 70's-disaster-movie classic about survivors attempting to flee a capsized ocean liner is based upon it.

I was surprised to find in reading modern reviews, that many consider the book to be bigoted - which I don't really understand.

Whenever bigotry, racism, or homophobia is brought up in the novel, it is purely through the voice and dialogue of two specific characters (a policeman, Rogo, and his wife, Linda) - who happen to embody these undesirable personality traits. These two characters are also actively disliked by the rest of the characters.

Since when does a novel having a hateful character inherently make the novel hateful itself?

What is the correct term to indicate the main divisions of each of the 7 (or 8) Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Julius Ceaser) books? Are they paragraphs? Or maybe simply portions that he wrote in different days? Thanks