Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . CHAPTER IX. THE DEFEAT OF THE f^^5^ss^==iSy*^^:«S2^^^HS^*;^lHE position in which Caesar now found himself, at the head ofa victorious army in the heartof Gaul and out of reach ofall immediate control by theSenate, could not but suggestto him the advantage of com-pleting without delay thework he had begun. It waspointed out in the last chapterthat it was not only the attempted migration of theHelvetii—an accidental circumstance, though one ofa kind liable to occur at any time,—which placed theRoman province in jeop
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . CHAPTER IX. THE DEFEAT OF THE f^^5^ss^==iSy*^^:«S2^^^HS^*;^lHE position in which Caesar now found himself, at the head ofa victorious army in the heartof Gaul and out of reach ofall immediate control by theSenate, could not but suggestto him the advantage of com-pleting without delay thework he had begun. It waspointed out in the last chapterthat it was not only the attempted migration of theHelvetii—an accidental circumstance, though one ofa kind liable to occur at any time,—which placed theRoman province in jeopardy. The real and perma-nent danger was the attitude and temper of theGallic tribes on the frontier—the Arverni, ^dui, andSequani. These would become friendly so soon asthe Roman power was felt and understood, and 148 58 ] The Defeat of the Germans. 149 would be hostile so long as they were witnesses of afeeble frontier-policy, and believed Rome itself to behopelessly weakened by internal strife. Thus theyhad encouraged the Helvetii, and given no aid toCaesar until they found out his strength
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