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De bello Gallico
also: Commentarii de Bello Gallico, "De bello galliсо"
Julius Caesar's own account of his campaigns in Gaul, standard reading in the Latin gymnasium curriculum; cited here as the dry classroom text worth an absurd number of weekly lessons.
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- On June and July §21 "De bello Gallico"
Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico, his own account of the Gallic War -- standard, dreaded Latin-classroom reading in the Russian gymnasium, hence the joke about it deserving twelve lessons a week.