item: #1 of 5 id: 10657 author: Caesar, Julius title: "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries date: None words: 160735 flesch: 51 summary: Rheni, the confluence of the Meuse and Rhine, or the point where the Meuse joins the Vahalis, or Waal, which little river branches out from the Rhine Convictolit[=a]nis, a division on his account among the Aeduans, C. vii. 32; Caesar confirms his election to the supreme magistracy, 33; he persuades Litavicus and his brothers to rebel, 37 Corc[=y]ra, an island of Epirus, _Corfu_ Cord[)u]ba, a city of Hispania Baetica, _Cordova;_ Caesar summons the leading men of the several states of Spain to attend him there, C. ii. 19; transactions of that assembly, 21 Corf[=i]n[)i]um, a town belonging to the Peligni, in Italy, _St. Pelino,_ al. _Penlina;_ XIII.--Upon news of Caesar's approach, the senate of Auximum went in a body to Attius Varus; and told him that it was not a subject for them to determine upon: yet neither they, nor the rest of the freemen would suffer Caius Caesar, a general, who had merited so well of the republic, after performing such great achievements, to be excluded from their town and walls; wherefore he ought to pay some regard to the opinion of posterity, and his own danger. keywords: account; aedui; ambassadors; arms; army; arrival; attack; baggage; battle; caesar; camp; cavalry; city; cohorts; command; corn; country; cut; danger; day; days; death; design; distance; domitius; enemy; fear; fleet; flight; forces; forward; gaul; general; germans; ground; guard; helvetii; horse; hostages; iii; italy; labienus; left; legions; long; manner; march; means; men; miles; near; night; number; orders; parts; people; place; pompey; province; purpose; quarters; rest; rhine; river; roman; safety; sea; senate; ships; sides; soldiers; state; territories; things; thought; time; town; troops; valour; vii; war; winter; works cache: 10657.txt plain text: 10657.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 21379 author: Fenn, George Manville title: Marcus: the Young Centurion date: None words: 85270 flesch: 87 summary: Something you can't make out? Yes, father--old Serge. Ah, Serge! said Cracis, with his brow clouding over. Old Serge says what you said has cut him to the heart, and that you didn't forgive him properly, and that he is dishonoured and disgraced as a soldier. keywords: army; boy; captain; chariot; course; cracis; dog; enemy; eyes; father; good; hand; head; help; horses; lad; left; look; man; marcus; master; men; place; right; serge; soldier; thought; time; want; way cache: 21379.txt plain text: 21379.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 26623 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Brass Bell; or, The Chariot of Death date: None words: 36550 flesch: 81 summary: And yet I did not kill that same Caesar, who has reduced our people to slavery and is now about to divide among his soldiers the lands of our fathers, I did not kill him when I was making off with him on my horse! You, my fine Bull, you took great Caesar prisoner? asked the horse-dealer mockingly. When my senses returned, I found myself lying on straw, along with a great number of other men, in a vast shed. keywords: albinik; arms; army; battle; bull; caesar; children; day; dealer; eyes; father; gallic; gaul; hand; head; horse; interpreter; left; master; meroë; moment; mother; roman; sea; slave; son; time; valleys; vannes; wife; women; words cache: 26623.txt plain text: 26623.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 31752 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Gold Sickle; Or, Hena, The Virgin of The Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul date: None words: 25700 flesch: 81 summary: These are, no doubt, the heads of enemies who have been killed by your fathers, friend Joel? With us, in olden days, friend Joel, these trophies were also preserved, but preserved in cedar oil when they were the heads of a hostile chieftain. keywords: armel; daughter; druids; family; father; friend; gaul; guest; head; hena; hesus; isle; joel; julyan; man; margarid; mother; new; romans; sen; son; story; stranger; traveler; war; wife cache: 31752.txt plain text: 31752.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 33868 author: Sue, Eugène title: The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps date: None words: 79425 flesch: 77 summary: THE CASQUE'S LARK; or, _Victoria, the Mother of the Camps._ That wondrous drama opens with this, the fifth of the stories--_The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps_. keywords: arms; army; battle; brother; camp; captain; chief; day; death; douarnek; ellen; elwig; eyes; frankish; franks; friend; gallic; gaul; great; hand; head; house; left; life; man; marion; moment; mother; neroweg; night; order; rhine; sampso; schanvoch; sister; soldiers; son; sword; tetrik; time; victoria; voice; wife; woman; words cache: 33868.txt plain text: 33868.txt