Excerpt from A Complete Dictionary to Caesar's Gallic War: With an Appendix of Idioms and Hints on TranslationThe object of the present work is to furnish beginners in Latin with a comprehensive Dictionary and Vocabulary to the seven books of Caesar's Gallic War. Scarcely any author is more generally read at an early stage in the study of Latin, and few require more elucidation. A large Dictionary, however, bewilders a young learner, and is therefore practic ally useless, while the smaller works do not contain information enough. By a strange inversion we supply an advanced student with all the light he can have, but give a beginner a meagre abridgment at best of the same information. N o wonder that the book which disappoints his search becomes an object of aversion to him.I have endeavoured also to draw attention both directly and indirect ly to idiomatic modes of translation. Literal translations, as they are called, are to be strenuously avoided. They are in fact no translations at all, but a mixture of English words and Latin idioms. A lesson in Latin translation should also be one in English composition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.