(Caesar de Bel.

Gal.) [3] Inhabitants of the country between the Rhine and the Loire.
[4] Inhabitants of the modern province of Hainault.
[5] She was the daughter of Caesar.
[6] Crassus was inveigled into the power of Surena, the Parthian general, under the pretence of treating for peace.

His head was cut off and sent to Orodes, the king of Parthia, who poured molten gold down his throat.
[7] This alludes to a boasting speech made some time before by Pompey, when he told the senate not to be alarmed at the news of Caesar's approach, for that he had only to stamp, and an army would rise at his command.
[8] Now Lerida in Catalonia.
[9] It was on this occasion that he encouraged the master of the vessel, to whom he had not before made himself known, with these memorable words--"Fear nothing, for thou carriest Caesar and all his fortunes." [10] Caesar calls the young patricians that composed Pompey's cavalry "pretty young dancers." * * * * *.