De Bello Gallico

All of Caesar for beginners. All in Latin. All in one book.

The complete Lingua Latina trilogy - over 700 pages - bound as a single tome: every chapter of the acclaimed graded-reader series covering the entire De Bello Gallico, Books I-VII, from the most famous opening line in Latin literature to the four quiet words that end a nation at Alesia.

This is a single continuous course. The reader who can only just parse Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs on page one is, seven hundred pages later, reading Caesar's unmodified prose without help - because every one of the 1,650+ new words is explained in Latin, in the margin, exactly once, and never wasted. No English translations. No dictionary. No shortcuts.

The whole war, in 62 chapters across three parts:

• VOLUMEN I - the Helvetii, Ariovistus, and Caesar's first march into Gaul
• VOLUMEN II - the Belgae, the sea war against the Veneti, the ten-day Rhine bridge, and the first landings in Britain
• VOLUMEN III - Britain again, the Ambiorix catastrophe, the druids and the endless forest, Vercingetorix, and the double ring of Alesia

Richly illustrated: more than 60 full-page cinematic plates, antique-style campaign maps, hand-drawn battle diagrams, and the engraved plan-and-cross-section of the Alesia siege works, labeled entirely in Latin.

Complete apparatus: an every-chapter passage of Caesar's original unadapted text; PERSŌNAE HISTORICAE - the afterlives of 21 figures from Orgetorix to Caesar himself, in Latin; and a merged 1,650-entry INDEX VERBŌRUM covering the entire course.

Perfect for: homeschool families, self-taught Latinists, classical schools, and anyone who finished Familia Romana and wants the real thing. The three volumes are also available separately - this edition exists for readers who want the whole campaign on one spine.

Ūna aestās, ūnum bellum, ūnus liber. Sequere aquilās.