Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . CHAPTER. XIV. PACIFICATION OF GAUL AND OUTBREAK OFCIVIL WAR. 52-49 H E fall of Alesia decided the fate of Gaul. Henceforward thatsplendid country with its giftedpopulation was to exercise anever-increasing influence onEuropean history; an influ-ence on the whole for good,and one which, in some waysat least, has surpassed thatof every other European indeed were the sufferings the Gallic peopleunderwent, before by becoming embodied in theRoman Empire they could attain the position forwhich their genius fitted them.
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . CHAPTER. XIV. PACIFICATION OF GAUL AND OUTBREAK OFCIVIL WAR. 52-49 H E fall of Alesia decided the fate of Gaul. Henceforward thatsplendid country with its giftedpopulation was to exercise anever-increasing influence onEuropean history; an influ-ence on the whole for good,and one which, in some waysat least, has surpassed thatof every other European indeed were the sufferings the Gallic peopleunderwent, before by becoming embodied in theRoman Empire they could attain the position forwhich their genius fitted them. We may, if wechoose, call up before our minds a dismal picture ofruined homesteads and wasted crops, of populationthinned by war and famine, of domestic and civicmorality disintegrated by war and passion. Un- 238 52 ] Pacificatioji of Gaul. 239 doubtedly Caesars name was terrible in the land, andsome stubborn tribes had seen him in no other guisethan that of a ruthless conqueror and stern the year that followed the siege of Alesia (), the events of which must be here omitted,saw the lands of rebellious Belgic
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