Publisher's Synopsis
Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BCE - 44 BCE) was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. The Commentarii de Bello Gallico (The Gallic Wars) cover seven years of Caesar's campaigns in Gaul and southern Britain in the 50s BCE. This volume contains the original Latin text "reduced to the natural English order with a literal Interlinear translation."