. First Steps in Latin: A Complete Course in Latin for One Year, Based on Material Drawn from Caesar's Commentaries, with exercises for Sight-Reading, and a Course of Elementary Latin Reading . NOTES. 405 in great numbers to Gaul, and disseminated Koman culture andcivilization to such an extent that many of the tribes could transactbusiness with Koman ambassadors in the Latin language. The centreof this civilization and refinement was the old Greek city Massilia;also the resort of those who had been banished from the capital. Themerchants stationed there carried on an extensive trade with the
. First Steps in Latin: A Complete Course in Latin for One Year, Based on Material Drawn from Caesar's Commentaries, with exercises for Sight-Reading, and a Course of Elementary Latin Reading . NOTES. 405 in great numbers to Gaul, and disseminated Koman culture andcivilization to such an extent that many of the tribes could transactbusiness with Koman ambassadors in the Latin language. The centreof this civilization and refinement was the old Greek city Massilia;also the resort of those who had been banished from the capital. Themerchants stationed there carried on an extensive trade with the inte-rior of Gaul, and even with Britain. They transported their wares upthe Rhone and Saone, and thence by land to the Seine and Loire, oracross to the Garonne, and so to the Atlantic. This intercourse pro-duced a close connection between the tribes from the Rhone and theGaronne to the Rhine and the Thames. Caesar saw how essential thepossession of this countrj was to the Roman state, and that to its con-queror was offered the prospect of surpassing the fame of Camillusand Marius. Of the population of Gaul, the uEdui had entered into an alliancewith Rome, while the Belgse in the north,
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