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C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 1, chapter 6 (search)
There were in all two routes, by which they could go forth from their country one
through the Sequani narrow and difficult, between Mount Jura and the river Rhone (by which scarcely
one wagon at a time could be led; there was, moreover, a very high mountain
overhanging, so that a very few might easily intercept them; the other, through
our Province, much easier and freer from obstacles, because the Rhone flows between the boundaries of the Helvetii and those of the Allobroges, who had lately
been subdued, and is in some places crossed by a ford. The furthest town of the
Allobroges, and the nearest to the territories of the Helvetii, is Geneva. From this town a bridge extends to the Helvetii. They thought that they should either persuade the
Allobroges, because they did not seem as yet well-affected
towar
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 1, chapter 8 (search)
Meanwhile, with the legion which he had with him and the soldiers which had
assembled from the Province, he carries along for nineteen [Roman, not quite eighteen English] miles a wall, to the
height of sixteen feet, and a trench, from the Lake of
Geneva, which flows into the river Rhone, to
Mount Jura, which separates
the territories of the Sequani from those of the Helvetii. When that work was finished, he distributes
garrisons, and closely fortifies redoubts, in order that he may the more easily
intercept them, if they should attempt to cross over against his will. When the
day which he had appointed with the embassadors came, and they returned to him;
he says, that he can not, consistently with the custom and precedent of the
Roman people, grant any one a pa