Change important to a future active participle modifying Celtae. Change commeant to perfect passive (masc). Change absunt to future perfect first person singular. Change dividit to a future passive participle modifying legibus. Change appellantur to future perfect active singular. For instance, if you re asked to change habet to the passive voice, make habet passive (i.e. When you re asked to change a word from one form to another, change only that form of the word. The questions below pertain to the forms underlined in the passage (pp. 2ģ name Worksheet - Julius Caesar: De Bello Gallico a. who live across the Rhine River, with whom they regularly wage war. Of all these (tribes) the Belgians are the bravest, propterea quod a cultū atque humanitate provinciae longissimē absunt, for the reason that they are the furthest away from the refinement and civilization of the Province, minimēque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad and least (often) do the merchants often go and come to them and import those things 1Ģ effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanīs, which tend to weaken (men s) courage, and they are nearest to the Germans, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.
Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, (the Gauls) from the Belgians. Gallos ab Aquitanīs Garumna flumen, a Belgīs Matrona The Garonne river (separates) the Gauls from the Aquitanians, the Marne and Seine separates et Sequana dividit. All these differ amongst themselves in language, customs, (and) laws. Hi omnes linguā, institutīs, legibus inter se differunt. Text and Translation Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres unam partem incolunt Belgae, All Gaul is divided into three parts the Belgians inhabit one part, the Aquitanians aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum linguā Celtae, nostrā Galli, (inhabit) another (part), (those) who are called Celts in their language, in ours Gauls, appellantur. In the following excerpt (the opening words of this commentary), he introduces to his Roman readers the people he will subdue and absorb into the melting pot that is soon to become the great Roman Empire under his successor Augustus. In his Commentarii de bello gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War), Julius Caesar ( B.C.) who wrote in a straightforward and concise style and referred himself in the third person! kept his popularity alive by sending home year by year a diary of his military successes as he conquered Gaul (58-51 B.C.).
1 Julius Caesar: De Bello Gallico Some of the best prose of the late Republic comes from politicians concerned with enhancing their own position in a world racked by civil conflict.
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