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C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 1, chapter 1 (search)
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, chapter 1 (search)
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, chapter 13 (search)
The island is triangular in its form, and one of its sides is opposite to Gaul. One angle of this side, which is in Kent
, whither almost all ships from Gaul are directed, [looks] to
the east; the lower looks to the south. This side extends about 500 miles.
Another side lies toward Spain and the west, on which
part is Ireland , less, as
is reckoned, than Britain, by one
half: but the passage [from it] into Britain is of
equal distance with that from Gaul. In the middle of this
voyage, is an island, which is called Mona:
many smaller islands besides are supposed to lie [there], of which islands some
have written that at the time of the winter solstice it is night there for
thirty consecutive days. We, in our inquiries about that matter, ascertained
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 3, chapter 23 (search)
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, chapter 27 (search)
C. Arpineius, a Roman knight,
the intimate friend of Q. Titurius, and with him, Q. Junius, a certain person from Spain, who already
on previous occasions, had been accustomed to go to Ambiorix, at
Caesar's mission, is sent to them for the purpose
of a conference: before them Ambiorix spoke to this effect: "That
he confessed, that for Caesar's kindness toward him, he
was very much indebted to him, inasmuch as by his aid he had been freed from a
tribute which he had been accustomed to pay to the Aduatuci, his
neighbors; and because his own son and the son of his brother had been sent back
to him, whom, when sent in the number of hostages, the Aduatuci had
detained among them in slavery and in chains; and that he had not done that
which he had done in
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War, Book 7, chapter 55 (search)
Noviodunum was a town of the Aedui, advantageously
situated on the banks of the Loire . Caesar had conveyed hither all the hostages of Gaul, the corn, public money, a great part of his own baggage and
that of his army; he had sent hither a great number of horses, which he had
purchased in Italy and Spain on account of this war. When Eporedirix and
Viridomarus came to this place, and received information of the
disposition of the state, that Litavicus had been admitted by the
Aedui into Bibracte , which is a town of the greatest importance among them,
that Convictolitanis the chief magistrate and a great part of the
senate had gone to meet him, that embassadors had been publicly sent to
Vercingetorix to negotiate a peace and alliance; they thought
that so grea