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Caesar: De Bello Gallico I (Bk.1)

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Caesar :De Bello Gallico I will be a great text for this semester.
The price was reasonable, and the book in good condition. I will tell my students to order it from Amazon. Thank you for making this text available .

The Latin text is quite short and the book is mostly explanations in English. I think you are better off to buy an English book that explains the war in Gaul and the Latin text separately. De Bello Gallico: Complete Edition (Latin Edition) is just $14.90 and it contains all SEVEN of Caesar's books and the EIGHTH book by Hirtius. This plus an English book about the war will add up to around $30. If you buy all seven Colin Ewan books you'll end up paying around $130!

Another interesting choice is a parallel text that features an English translation next to the Latin text: De Bello Gallico: Parallel Text English - Latin

This book is very well put together and it seems like there is alot of reading but only about 40-45 pages of the book are in Latin. The glossary at the back is very helpful especially because there are words which weren't taught in first year Latin. The notes are helpful except when there is a difficult passage in the text and it looks like Ewan will translate it but he just gives very vague hints at what it might mean. Other than that, I recommend this book for reading Latin and it even has a map of the time period in the front of the book.

Basic text. Makes for some interesting war tactics. Considering how Caesar loved to play propaganda, it makes one wonder how much is near what truly happened.
**Recommend for entertaining reading of early Roman
empire--Sci-Fi novel called Damsel in the Rough. It's a
first-person take on events after Caesar's death by a woman
from Brooklyn.