hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War. You can also browse the collection for France (France) or search for France (France) in all documents.
Your search returned 179 results in 104 document sections:
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 7, chapter 71 (search)
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 7, chapter 77 (search)
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 4, chapter 8 (search)
To these remarks Caesar replied in such terms as he
thought proper; but the conclusion of his speech was, "That he could make no
alliance with them, if they continued in Gaul; that it was not probable
that they who were not able to defend their own territories, should get
possession of those of others, nor were there any lands lying waste in Gaul, which could be given away, especially to so great a nr were there any lands lying waste in Gaul, which could be given away, especially to so great a number of
men, without doing wrong [to others]; but they might, if they were desirous,
settle in the territories of the Ubii; whose embassadors were then
with him, and were complaining of the aggressions of the Suevi, and
requesting assistance from him; and that he would obtain this request from
them."
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, chapter 8 (search)
When these things were done [and] Labienus, left on the
continent with three legions and 2,000 horse, to defend the harbors and provide
corn, and discover what was going on in Gaul, and take measures
according to the occasion and according to the circumstance; he himself, with
five legions and a number of horse, equal to that which he was leaving on the
continent, set sail at sun-set, and [though for a time] borne forward by a
gentle south-west wind, he did not maintain his course, in consequence of the
wind dying away about midnight, and being carried on too far by the tide, when
the sun rose, espied Britain passed
on his left. Then, again, following the change of tide, he urged on with the
oars that he might make that part of the island in which he had discovered the