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Signor Ferrero's Reconstruction of Caesar's First Commentary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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The credibility of Caesar's account of his campaigns against the Helvetii and Ariovistus has recently been attacked anew by Signor Ferrero, whose fame, rapidly acquired, is not only European but Transatlantic, and who has conducted his case with more ability than his predecessors and on entirely new lines. I do not think that it will be a waste of time to analyse the article in which he has set it forth.
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page 203 note 1 Ferrero Guglielmo, The Greatness and Decline of Rome (Eng. trans.), ii. 1907, pp. 336–51.
page 204 note 1 B.G. i. 31, 35, § 4; vi. 12.
page 204 note 2 Att. i. 19, § 2.
page 204 note 3 Ib. 20, § 5.
page 205 note 1 B.G. i. 31, § 12.
page 205 note 2 Ib. 35, § 2; 40, § 2; 43, §§ 4–5; 44, § 5
page 205 note 3 Op. dt. pp. 337–40.
page 205 note 4 See p. 210, infra.
page 206 note 1 Op. at. pp. 340–1.
page 206 note 2 B.G. ii. I, §4.
page 207 note 1 B.G. i. 5, § I.
page 207 note 2 Op. cit. p. 342.
page 207 note 3 Ib.
page 207 note 4 Holmes Rice, Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, 1899, p.30.
page 207 note 5 Op. cit. p. 343.
page 208 note 1 1 Op. cit. pp. 343–4.
page 208 note 2 Signor Ferrero indeed holds that Caesar then thought that the Helvetii intended to conquer Gaul, and only found out his mistake just before he returned to Italy for reinforcements. But such a host could not have settled anywhere in Gaul without conquest; and of course they intended to conquer all they could.
page 209 note 3 Op. cit. p. 345.
page 210 note 1 B.G. i 18, §§ 8–9. NO. XI. VOL. III.
page 210 note 2 Op. cit. pp. 344–5.
page 210 note 3 Ib. pp. 345–6.
page 210 note 4 Ib. pp. 346.
page 211 note 1 Op. cit. pp. 346–7.
page 211 note 2 Ib. p. 348
page 211 note 3 I freely admit that one of the motives that induced Casticus to listen to the arguments of Orgetorix may have been the desire to expel Ariovistus; for Casticus was a Sequanian, and the Sequani were oppressed by Ariovistus.
page 211 note 4 Op. cit. p. 347
page 211 note 5 Ib.
page 212 note 1 B.G. i. 3, § 4; iv. 12, § 4; vii. 31, § 5.
page 212 note 2 Op. cit. pp. 348–9.
page 213 note 1 Op. cit. p. 349.
page 213 note 2 B. G. i. 30–3.
page 213 note 3 ‘multae res earn hortabantur quare sibi earn rem losum uidebat, neque sibi homines feros ac barbaros cogitandam et suscipiendam putaret, in primis quod temperatures existimabat quin, cum omnem Galliam Haeduos fratres consanguineosque saepe numero a occupauissent, ut ante Cimbri Teutonique fecissent, senatu appellatos in seruitute atque in dicione uidebat in prouinciam exirent atque inde in Italiam conten- Germanorum teneri eorumque obsides esse apud derent, praesertim cum Sequanos a prouincia nostra Ariouistum ac Sequanos intellegebat; quod in tanto Rhodanus diuideret; quibus rebus quam maturrime imperio populi Romani turpissimum sibi et rei pub- occurrendum putabat. Ipse autem Ariouistus tantos licae esse arbitrabatur. Paulatim autem Germanos sibi spiritus, tantam arrogantiam sumpserat ut ferconsuescere Rhenum transire et in Galliam magnam endus non uideretur.’
page 214 note 1 Op. cit. p. 351.