8 



iHiS 



,vhole period, the copper ^"'^^ *J fj''^^ ,^J\,ells 



-.rtreJ?:nri;se^f.;^„;:^-- 



Co^l S -ulilon being sent abroad by >VY of 



BT^HeoTle n s'o.ih eS\ ^Britain had an 

 fndfc^enorgokl coinage of their o«-n, in two 



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Se contemp^ary ^^■itllit, and the smne may be 



he Beh' ■ people when, Ca-sar encoimtered W 

 an atamUn gold currency of then- own, and that 

 tHs™»mplemented by a bronze coinage as woU 



r"%t Belrd The next yL Caesar 



rdtatTsLd himself that -. P™f ^ %^^t 



existed through Gaul to the V^'^l^^ '^^f ^^^^ 



^^^"^^^rileJl^maS^danlS^ 

 uileaguewntbtbc^ ena. ma ^^^.^j^, ^„„,t. 



a-ain closed against his retm-n. A\ hen Coesar liad 

 d?te™ined to strike a blow in pursuance ot an 

 obecrhe <lid not care to avow, an opportumt 

 always somehow occun-cd of striking it on h.gh 

 moS ^unds. and the Yeneti offered an ex 



moral gi-ounas, ana me ■ <="- - — ■ . , 



ceptionallv favoiu-ablc opportunity of the kind. 

 PubUus Cransus, one of Otesar's heutenants had 

 ^utZ™ an insurrection of the Armorican fetat_es 



?he year before, and had taken '«- -if^^^'^^Vf^ho 

 still retained from the conquered tribes. In th 

 ■ (- . Vi-^sn-i feU short of wheat andsentsumUy 

 ;rc«^tri?;Usmon:uppliesfromtheneighboiu-- 



fr^st'tes The Veneti at once seized the ofhcei.-^ 



seit to them.and kept them in custody in the 



1 If l<ein.r able to exchange them for the 



Z 1 "es h V thmselves had given^ Other states 



foUol°"d the^example,aud C^sar, then Bome«^.ere 



n North Italv,wai informed by messenger of ^^ hat 



hid occurred His reply was an order for a nuni- 



tr of b leships to be iniilt on the Loire a a s,jie 



distance from its mouth ; rowers were to be m- 



messed from the Mediterranean coast, and i lots 



and s«'iien to be seciu-ed wherever they eonld e 



anrt se-"'Vf uj^self ioined the army as soon as the 



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f,-n,>, the Mediterranean with certain gaueys 



and hikeet was fiu-ther strengthene,! by su^drj 



volt. M^-«_»-^^« ,\'^^he states which were usuaUy . 

 ^p'xXdas iSjiii^nrto the Armorican League. 

 ,ft aSm thcy°corad coerce or induce to make 



amve<l. it was tm nrs Brutus was young 



^^ scmie loss ^ Xr it 1^v<:S:S tX ^mo^t 



dead calm 'l^^^ed the foi t.vne of ^^ 5^^^ ^^j_ 

 "^*'^'^'':;:d' Of theii t" o hnndi-ed and twenty 



U -'f^-*>\™t^Ve,lip we e cJa?s After a 

 these exceptions the ships J* ert ^g^ was 



defeat so -^-l^^-^^faero-a^^V" example 



'r^h* t lie He theitforeput the entire Senate 

 of the &tate. lie lue i j^ ^^^ 



to death ^^if^J'Z observe th.at^he\-iping 

 ''T o7 th? Venefi effectuaUy removed wha he 

 " Id as the last hincU-ance to a descent on 

 SSaln The Vcnetic League at least would levy 



