Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Iulius 25

Suetonius summarizes the achievements of Julius Caesar during his nine years of command in Gaul: he reduced all of Gaul — bounded by the Pyrenees, the Alps, Mount Cebenna, and the rivers Rhine and Rhône — to a province, imposed tribute, became the first Roman to cross the Rhine by bridge and inflict great defeats on the Germans, and conquered the previously unknown Britons, exacting money and hostages; in all these campaigns he suffered serious setbacks only three times — a fleet nearly destroyed by storm in Britain, a legion routed at Gergovia, and his legates Titurius and Aurunculeius killed in an ambush in Germany.

 

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Caesar novem annos in Gallia bellum gessit. Haec fere gessit:

Omnem Galliam provinciam Romanam fecit. Gallia terra magna est — Montes Pyrenaei et Alpes et Cebenna eam cingunt, et flumina Rhenus et Rhodanus. Caesar Gallis imperavit ut quotannis magnam pecuniam (CCCC in singulos annos) Romanis darent.

Primus Romanorum pontem in Rheno fecit. Trans Rhenum in Germaniam transiit et Germanos valde vicit. Britannos quoque vicit — qui antea Romanis ignoti erant. Ab eis pecunias et obsides accepit.

In tot annis bellorum, ter tantum res male cessit. In Britannia classis eius tempestate paene deleta est. In Gallia ad Gergoviam una legio victa est. In finibus Germanorum legati eius Titurius et Aurunculeius per insidias occisi sunt.