CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES ON THE GALLIC WAR Books I - VII, The Original Latin Text With An Interlinear English Translation by Frederick Holland Dewey, A.B., 1918 edition. Translation Publishing Company (Irving Place, New York), 7.6125 x 5.125-inch linen-clad HB, no DJ (if it was issued with one), 500 pp., very good condition at age 106, clean and tightly bound, fading at spine has made embossed gold lettering a challenge to read, front and back covers are bright; tip of upper front corner has a bit of fraying, tips of lower corners have a dot of wear; soft bump at tip of lower front corner, original owner's names in small penciled letters at upper edge of inside front cover;pages are unusually bright and clean, so although the font is small, it stands out sharply on the pages; blank page before back end paper is slightly spread from center seam at its upper section).
Caesar was perhaps Rome's greatest emperor, and he's certainly its best-known one, thanks not just to his successful wars that added many country's to the Roman Empire, but also because Shakespeare wrote a calssic play about him. His commentaries in Latin have been translated and read since the late 1800s, and the lay-out here - each Latin line followed by a word-by-word translation, called interlinear, make for slow reading but also results in full comprehension. His place in history was confirmed yet again by Ridley Scott'smagnificent film GLADIATOR, with Richard Harris as the dying king who wants his top general Commodus (Russell Crowe), who has just defeated a Germanic army, to become the Protector of Rome after his death and restore the Republican form of government. Tragically, his villainous son (Joaquin Phoenix) has other plans.
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