Caesar's Gallic War Commentaries in Latin: Commentariorum de Bello Gallico (Latin Edition)

COMMENTARIORUM DE BELLO GALLICO - This is the complete commentary, all eight books in the original Latin. Paragraphs and sentences are numbered for reference but there are no added notes.Commentaries on the Gallic War, is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting the Germanic and Celtic peoples in Gaul who opposed the Roman conquest.Because of its simple, direct prose the work has been a mainstay in Latin instruction. It begins with the frequently quoted phrase, "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres", meaning, "Gaul is a whole divided into three parts". The book is divided into eight parts, Books One to Eight, that vary in size from 5,000 to 15,000 words. Book Eight was written by Aulus Hirtius, after Caesar's death.