Caesar (ii. 25) speaks of seizing a shield and
restoring the battle. Plutarch has taken from Caesar (c. 29) the amount
of the enemy's loss. See Dion Cassius (39. c. 1, &c.)]
[Footnote 491: "Ob easque res ex litteris Caesaris dies xv subplicatio
decreta est, quod ante id tempus accidit nulli." (Caesar, _Gallic War_,
ii. 35.)]
[Footnote 492: See the Life of Crassus, c. 14; Life of Pompeius, c.
51. The meeting at Luca was at the end of B.C. 56, and Plutarch has
omitted the campaign of that year, which is contained in Caesar's Third
Book of the Gallic War.]
[Footnote 493: Csasar (iv. 1) names them Usipetes and Tenetheri. The
events in this chapter belong to B.C. 55, when Cn. Pompeius Magnus and
M. Licinius Crassus were consuls for the second time.]
[Footnote 494: Caesar, iv. c. 12. Plutarch here calls the Commentaries
[Greek: ephemerides], which means a Diary or Day-book. The proper
Greek word would be [Greek: hypomnemata]. Kaltwasser accordingly
concludes that Plutarah appears to have confounded the Ephemerides and
the Commentarii, or at least to have used the word [Greek:
ephemerides] improperly instead of [Greek: hypomnemata] . There is no
proof that Caesar kept a diary. That kind of labour is suited to men of
a different stamp from him. Plutarch means the Commentarii. It is true
that Servius (_Ad AEneid._ xi. 743) speaks of a diary (Ephemeris) of
Caesar, which records his being once captured by the Gauls.
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