Exempla antiqua

Classical and Medieval Latin examples for learners

Caesar constructs a wall and ditch

Caesar, Bellum Gallicum 1.8

Interea ea legione quam secum habebat, militibusque qui ex provincia convenerant, a lacu Lemanno, qui in flumen Rhodanum influit, ad montem Iuram, qui fines Sequanorum ab Helvetiis dividit, milia passuum decem novem murum in altitudinem pedum sedecim fossamque perducit.


Very little of this vocab will be known by Shelmerdine 12

Could leave out relative clauses

Interea ea legione militibusque, a lacu Lemanno ad montem Iuram, milia passuum decem novem murum in altitudinem pedum sedecim fossamque perducit.

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