Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . CHAPTER X. THE CONQUEST OF NORTH-WESTERN ||HE troops were withdrawn forif winter-quarters into the coun-try of the Sequani. Caesarwrote these few words in hisusualquiet and matter-of-factway, at the end of his firstbook on the GalHc War, as ifthere were no special signifi-cance about them. Yet hemust have very well knownthat this act of his was the declaration of a newpolicy, and full of meaning alike for Gauls, Germans,and Italians. So far he had been acting as thechampion of Gallic tribes against barbarian invaders,
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . CHAPTER X. THE CONQUEST OF NORTH-WESTERN ||HE troops were withdrawn forif winter-quarters into the coun-try of the Sequani. Caesarwrote these few words in hisusualquiet and matter-of-factway, at the end of his firstbook on the GalHc War, as ifthere were no special signifi-cance about them. Yet hemust have very well knownthat this act of his was the declaration of a newpolicy, and full of meaning alike for Gauls, Germans,and Italians. So far he had been acting as thechampion of Gallic tribes against barbarian invaders,in order to secure the Roman frontier, and to pushback the elements of discord. But to keep an armyfor a whole winter in territory which was not Roman,meant something more than this—it meant that heII l6i
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