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Commentarii (Caesar)
Caesar's Commentaries
also: commentarios, the commentaries, commentaries of his own deeds
Caesar's commentaries on his own deeds (the war narratives), praised by Cicero in the Brutus as bare, straight, and graceful, with all oratorical ornament stripped away.
Reading notes
- Brutus §262 the commentaries which the same man wrote of his own deeds
Caesar's Commentarii (the narratives of the Gallic and Civil Wars), praised by Cicero as bare, straight, and graceful, written to furnish material for historians.