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Question: I am desparate?!?

where can i find a link to a complete translation of THE HELVETIAN DRIVE TO THE WEST from Julius Caesar's GALLIC WARS?

i NEED YOUR HELP! it has to be the ENGLISH from the LATIN

Answer: "Commentaries on the Gallic War" :

Read online at forumromanum.org: http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/caesar/gallic_e1.html

Download as plain txt file from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10657

Wikisource has another online copy: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Gallic_War

Here's a funky version in which you can do some nice research on the contexts in which words are used: http://www.intratext.com/X/ENG2090.HTM

I'm not familiar with the text, but the table of contents in the wikisource suggests you might be looking for book 1, on the events in 58 BCE.

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With 25 million books sold, an award-winning TV series heading for prime time, fronted by Norfolk’s own Stephen Fry, and two stage shows at Norwich Theatre Royal, SIMON PARKIN looks at how Horrible Histories became a phenomenon.

Act 4 Scene 3 Julius Caesar