SC - De Bello Gallico was: Celtic Dung Fires

[Alderton, Philippa]

Part of the reason De Bello Gallico is not frequently translated is that
every Latin student is made to suffer Caesar about their second year of
Latin, since it's written in a simple Classical style. If Caesar wrote of
elk being raised like fruit trees and plucked from them like fruit or
whatever, trust me, it was a story he'd heard- the man has no sense of
humor. I still shudder when I think of all the hours I spent watching Caesar
run those 3456876 footsoldiers up and down the hills, in and out of various
campi, waving gladii and heaving pili.....

Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est, and he should have left it that way.

Now, on the other hand, Virgil.......


Phlip

phlip at morganco.net

Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

The World's Need

So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.

- - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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