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C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 3, chapter 1 (search)
When Caesar was setting out for Italy, he
sent Servius Galba with the twelfth legion and part of the cavalry,
against the Nantuates, the Veragri, and
Seduni, who extend from the territories of the
Allobroges, and the lake of Geneva , and the River Rhone to the top of the
Alps. The reason for sending him was, that he desired that the pass
along the Alps , through which [the
Roman] merchants had been accustomed to travel with great
danger, and under great imposts, should be opened. He permitted him, if he
thought it necessary, to station the legion in these places, for the purpose of
wintering. Galba having fought some successful battles and stormed
several of their forts, upon embassadors being sent to him from all parts and
No vulgar wing, nor weakly plied,
Shall bear me through the liquid sky;
A two-form'd bard, no more to bide
Within the range of envy's eye
'Mid haunts of men. I, all ungraced
By gentle blood, I, whom you call
Your friend, Maecenas, shall not taste
Of death, nor chafe in Lethe's thrall.
E'en now a rougher skin expands
Along my legs: above I change
To a white bird; and o'er my hands
And shoulders grows a plumage strange:
Fleeter than Icarus, see me float
O'er Bosporus, singing as I go,
And o'er Gaetulian sands remote,
And Hyperborean fields of snow;
By Dacian horde, that masks its fear
Of Marsic steel, shall I be known,
And furthest Scythian: Spain shall hear
My warbling, and the banks of Rhone.
No dirges for my fancied death;
No weak lament, no mournful stave;
All clamorous grief were waste of breath,
And vain the tribute of a grave.
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 2, line 193 (search)
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan), BOOK VIII, CHAPTER II: RAINWATER (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 2, line 193 (search)
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES of THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 1 (search)
While these things passed in Spain, Trebonius, Caesar's lieutenant, who
had been left to carry on the siege of Marseilles, raised terraces for two
different attacks, and approached with his towers and galleries. One of the
attacks was on the side of the port; the other, towards the mouth of the Rhone, which empties itself into the sea,
bordering upon Spain and Gaul. For Marseilles is washed by the sea on three
sides, and can be approached by land only on the fourth; of which that part
where the citadel stands, being very strong by nature, because of a deep
valley that runs before it, requires a long and difficult siege. For the
completing of these works, Trebonius drew together, from all parts of the
province, a great number of workmen and beasts of carriage; ordered
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 25 (search)
During nine years in which he held the government of the province, his achievements were as follows:
he reduced all Gaul, bounded by the Pyrenean forest, the Alps, mount Gebenna, and the two rivers, the Rhine and the Rhone, and being about three thousand two hundred miles in compass, into the form of a province, excepting only the nations in alliance with the republic, and such as had merited his favour; imposing upon this new acquisition an annual tribute of forty millions of sesterces. He
was the first of the Romans who, crossing the Rhine by a
bridge, attacked the Germanic tribes inhabiting the country beyond that river, whom he defeated in several engagements. He also invaded the Britons,
a people formerly unknown, and having vanquished them, exacted
from them contributions and hostages. Amidst such a
series of successes, he experienced thrice only any signal disaster; once in Britain, when his fleet was nearly
wrecked in a storm; in Gaul, at Gergovia, where one of
his legions w
Next, conquered on the land, upon the main
They try their fortunes. On their simple craft
No painted figure-head adorned the bows
Nor claimed protection from the gods; but rude,
Just as they fell upon their mountain homes,
The trees were knit together, and the deck
Gave steady foot-hold for an ocean fight.
Meanwhile had Caesar's squadron left the Rhone
And reached with Brutus' This was Decimus Brutus, an able and trusted lieutenant of Caesar, who made him one of his heirs in the second degree. He, however, joined the conspiracy, and it was he who on the day of the murder induced Caesar to go to the Senate House. Less than two years later, after the siege of Perusia, he was deserted by his army, taken and put to death. turret ship the strait
By Stoechas'Near Toulon, and now called the Iles d'Hyeres. isles. Nor less the Grecian host-
Boys not yet grown to war, and aged men,
Armed for the conflict, with their all at stake.
Nor only did they marshal for the fight
Ships meet for servic