Commentarii de Bello Gallico
The Gallic War
Julius Caesar Gaius Iulius Caesar · 100 – 44 BCE
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Caesar's own account of nine years of war in Gaul, told in the third person in clear, level Latin that schoolchildren have parsed ever since. The plainness is a strategy: the narrator is always reasonable and the reader is rarely invited to ask about his enemies' losses or his own ambitions. It remains the main source for the conquest and a lesson in how a commander writes himself into history. Book 8 is by Aulus Hirtius.