Caesar passed the winter of B.C. 51 at Nemetocenna, Arras, in Belgium.
The final pacification of Gaul is mentioned (viii. 48). Caesar left
Gaul for North Italy in the early part of B.C. 50, and having visited
all the cities in his province on the Italian side of the Alps, he
again returned to Nemetocenna in Belgium, and after finally settling
affairs in those parts, he returned to North Italy, where he learned
that the two legions, which had been taken from him for the Parthian
war, had been given by the consul C. Marcellus to Pompeius, and were
kept in Italy.
In nine years Caesar completed the subjugation of all that part of Gaul
which is bounded by the Saltus Pyrenaeus, the Alps and the Cevennes,
the Rhine and the Rhone; and it was reduced to the form of a province.
(Suetonius, _Caesar_, c. 25.) With the capture of Alesia the Seventh
book of the Gallic War ends. The Eighth book is not by Caesar.]
[Footnote 509: As to the disturbances at Rome mentioned in this
chapter, see the Life of Pompeius, c. 54, &c., notes.]
[Footnote 510: Life of Pompeius, c. 52.]
[Footnote 511: M. Claudius Marcellus, consul B.C. 51, with S.
Sulpicius Rufus.]
[Footnote 512: Novum Comum or Novocomum; north of the Padus, had been
settled as a Colonia Latina by Caesar. (Appianus, _Civil Wars_, ii.
26.)
The government of the colonia was formed on a Roman model: there was a
body of Decuriones or Senators.
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