NAVAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE VENETI. — The Veneti inhabited the peninsula of Aremorica called Bretagne, Brittany, or Little Britain, since the emigration from Great Britain to escape the Saxon invasion. It has always been the home of the hardiest, most independent, and most strongly characterized of all the Gallic populations. Its scenery is wild and secluded, the character of its coast being clearly given in Caesar's narrative. Its language remains Celtic to this day. No one of Caesar's campaigns shows more strikingly his boldness and fertility of resource than this. [*] 78.8. Germanis: i.e. under Ariovistus. It will be noticed that the geographical order, and not the order of events, is followed in this summary. Of the Alpine tribes the Seduni are mentioned as the most important. The passage in brackets makes sense, and may be translated. [*] 78.10. Illyricum: part of Caesar's province. [*] 78.12. Crassus: see 46 24-27, 72 24 ff.; for force of adulescens, see note on 46 25. [*] 78.13. mare: following proximus with the construction of prope （§ 432. a (261. a); B. 141. 3; G. 359. N. 1; H. 435. 2 (391. 2); H-B. 380. b）. [*] 78.14. praefectos, officers of cavalry and auxiliaries. [*] 78.15. complurīs goes with civitatīs.
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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
book 2
BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.
BOOK FOURTH. — B.C. 55.
BOOK FIFTH.—B.C. 54.
BOOK VI. BOOK SIXTH.—B.C. 53.
BOOK SEVENTH.—B.C. 52.
Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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