#De Bello Gallico

[doubtspirit]

The Wicker Man of the Druids

An 18th-century illustration of a wicker man. Engraving from A Tour in Wales written by Thomas Pennant (1726-1798).

[didoofcarthage]

Initial G: Julius Caesar on Horseback (with detail of Caesar), from the beginning of a manuscript with De Bello Gallico

Italian (created in Florence), c. 1460-1470

tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink

J. Paul Getty Museum

[blueberry-sleight]

reading prose (latin) from 2000 years ago is funny because you'll be looking up words in an online dictionary and the dictionary is like 'its probably [common and appropriate word] but also in this like one text its sexual so I'll give you that translation too' and I have to. not pick the sex one :(

[peppermintsandbones5]

Julius Caesar, yapper supreme

[dullyn]

gnawing on the walls and thinking about my pages of caesar's de bello gallico that got eaten by my old school's google drive

[mewiskowpioni]

Mihi valde placet ut fons Druidarum in Catacumbis et Draconibus in Bello Caesaris Gallico est. E.g. lingua secreta! Caesar quidem fons Gallicorum credibilis non erat, hahae.

[sewingseraph]

HAPPY IDES OF MARCH Y’ALL 🎉🎉

[thoodleoo]

that really absolutes my ablative

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The Ardennes Draft Horse or Ardennais is considered one of the oldest breeds of draft horse.

Their history reaches back to Ancient Rome. The Ardennes breed could be a direct descendant of the prehistoric Solutré horse.

It is claimed to be descended from the type of horse described by Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico.

Caesar described these horses of Belgium as "rustic, hard and tireless." He recommended them for use in heavy cavalry units.

The early type was used by many later Roman emperors for military applications.

The breed's ancestors are thought to have been bred for 2,000 years on the Ardennes plains. It is one of the oldest documented European heavy draft breeds.

They weigh 700 to 1,000 kilograms (1,500 to 2,200 lbs).

[thezestywalru]

MOOD

this one's for all the sections of de bello gallico I had to translate you bastard

[gaiusjuliuscaesar]

i think my toxic trait is the fact that i am actually am augustus fan first and foremost and the only reason i have this url is because nobody else did and i thought the opportunity was too good to pass up

[vaultureculture]

Reading Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose again. It's fucking delirious with all the grandiloquent philosophy, theology and the passages in Latin, and it's so fun. Genuinely. What a puzzle of a book. Extremely historically accurate, too. I'm glad to have been taught Latin as part of my curriculum because it means I get to read this in the og version and fully understand it as I go.

This novel combines two of my favorite things, reading and translating. It's my favorite book, has been since I first read it at 13.

[caesxr]

enjoying the writings of julius caesar should be in the dsm-5

[interretialia]

Vera dicit!

via Comentarii de Bello Gallico 1.3.7 trans. Hans-Friedrich Mueller

rip

[uni-seahorse-572]

anyway on this very special day the Latin student in me wants y'all to know that Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars, refers to himself nigh exclusively in 3rd person. so yeah he absolutely did have the whole stabbing thing coming

[cupidswurld]

transphobia spotted on idahobit 🏳️‍⚧️