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  • To supply the army or provide other services, traders and contractors often traveled with Roman legions; Julius Caesar had such a person with him during the Gallic Wars, explicitly “for the sake of business.”

    The Sack of Washington Murphy, Cullen 2007

  • For a moment, Beau could see Adam Le Boeuf standing in front of the class, explaining Caesar's Gallic Wars, telling them all about the French hero Vercingetorix, a name Beau had never forgotten.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • For a moment, Beau could see Adam Le Boeuf standing in front of the class, explaining Caesar's Gallic Wars, telling them all about the French hero Vercingetorix, a name Beau had never forgotten.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • But I still had to translate half a page of Caesar's goddamned Gallic Wars, and I saw the President on TV, and I figured things were okay, because he was the President of the United Goddamned States, and he-had to know what was really going on.

    The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

  • Yagoda's tour of the current memoir craze follows a historical approach, tracing the genre's development over time - starting with Caesar's account of the Gallic Wars.

    NYT > Home Page By ELSA DIXLER 2010

  • Ann Chase, the town's leading witch, scares off Cal's crazies by "cursing" them - i.e. quoting a fragment of Caesar's Gallic Wars in Latin.

    Between the Covers 2009

  • These 9 years of terrible bloodshed are known to us as the Gallic Wars, which climaxed at Alesia.

    StrategyPage.com 2009

  • These 9 years of terrible bloodshed are known to us as the Gallic Wars, which climaxed at Alesia.

    StrategyPage.com 2009

  • Cæsar's _Gallic Wars_, which makes a single volume of moderate size with us, made eight Roman books.] -- the work filled one hundred and forty - two volumes -- perished during the disturbed period that followed the overthrow of the empire.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

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