Transalpine Gaul
Britishnoun
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Book xi. treated of the wars in Spain and Transalpine Gaul, and contained criticisms and anecdotes of various public men.
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He shows that the reconciliation could not have taken place in the winter of 54-3, as Caesar was absent in Transalpine Gaul.
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The rich provinces of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyrium were assigned to him for five years; and Transalpine Gaul was afterwards added by the Senate, because they saw the people were so completely under his influence, that they would either have given him all he asked, or he would have taken all he wanted without asking it.
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Just as the French are called after one conquering people, the Franks; just as the English are called after one conquering people, the Angles; so the heterogeneous Celtae of Transalpine Gaul were called after one conquering people; and that people were the Celts, or rather a branch of the Celts in the true sense of the word.
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This done he set himself to training his new men, encamped in Transalpine Gaul, in readiness to meet the foe.
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