Texts
Commentarii de bello Gallico‘Commentaries on the Gallic wars’
- Classical Latin
- prose
- Ancient Roman texts
Author
Julius CaesarJulius Caesar
(died 44 BC)
Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman statesman, general and consul
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(died 44 BC)
Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman statesman, general and consul
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Gaius Julius Caesar
Manuscripts
The earliest extant manuscripts of the text belong to the Middle Ages. These manuscripts are usually divided into two families, a class α and a class β, which in one way or another, derive ultimately from a common exemplar:(1)n. 1 The following is based on Ryce, xii-xiii.
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Language
- Classical Latin
Form
prose (primary)
Sources
Notes
The following is based on Ryce, xii-xiii.
Siglum M in Du Pontet, preface
Siglum b in Du Pontet, preface
R in Du Pontet, preface
D in Du Pontet, preface
T in Du Pontet, preface
U in Du Pontet, preface
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] Hering, W. [ed.], C. Iuli Caesaris commentarii, I: Commentarii belli gallici, Leipzig, Stuttgart: Teubner, 1987.
- Individual books
[ed.] Ewan, Colin [ed.], De Bello Gallico I, Bristol Classical Press, revised ed. (1957), London, 1993.
Reprints since 1957: London, 1957; Bristol, 1985.
[ed.] Kennedy, E. C. [ed.], De bello Gallico II, Palatine Classics, London: University Tutorial Press, 1967.
Reprinted: Bristol, 1983.
[ed.] Rambaud, Michel [ed.], De bello Gallico secundus tertiusque libri, Érasme: collection de textes latins commentés 12, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1965.
Books 2 and 3.
Books 2 and 3.
[ed.] Kennedy, E. C. [ed.], De bello Gallico III, Cambridge Elementary Classics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959.
[ed.] Rambaud, Michel [ed.], Bellum Gallicum. Liber 4, Érasme: collection de textes latins commentés 19, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1967.
Book 4.
Book 4.
[ed.] Carrington, R. C. [ed.], Caesar. De bello Gallico V (1939), Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1984.
[ed.] Rambaud, Michel [ed.], Bellum Gallicum. Liber 5, Érasme: collection de textes latins commentés 29, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1974.
Book 5.
Book 5.
[ed.] Kennedy, E. C. [ed.], De bello Gallico VI, Bristol Classical Press, Bristol, 1969.
Reprinted: New Rochelle, New York, 1971.
[ed.] Kennedy, E. C. [ed.], De bello Gallico VII, Cambridge Elementary Classics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959.
[tr.] Hammond, Carolyn [tr.], Julius Caesar. The Gallic war: seven commentaries on the Gallic war with an eighth commentary by Aulus Hirtius, Oxford Classical Texts, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
[tr.] Hunink, Vincent, Gaius Julius Caesar, Oorlog in Gallië, en Aulus Hirtius, Aanvulling op Caesars 'Oorlog in Gallië', Amsterdam: Polak & Van Gennep, 1997.
Dutch translation, with commentary.
Dutch translation, with commentary
Secondary sources (select)
web page identifiers
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December 2010, last updated: August 2020