Riding High in Gaul

Salevete,

Continuing the visual representation of textual data as above, here is the chart for Book 2 of Caesar's Gallic War:

Like Book 1, the trend continues here that, as a chapter concludes, Caesar's name is mentioned more and more.  In particular, this chapter ends with the declaration that all of Gaul was subdued at the end of his second year in Gaul.  Here seems to be how Caesar approaches his texts when he succeeds, as he did early on in the war, but the question becomes: does this change when the war suddenly has several fronts?

Liber Tertius has many facets to it, and here is a chart of the beginning of it.  In context, Gaul seems pacified, but Galba and his legion is are surprised by the Veragri, Seduni, and Nantuates.  They hold out within a town, and only survive because of a surprise sally they made out of the town.  The Veneti hold prominently as agitators of this war, but the trend for Caesar still holds.  However, more charts are needed to show where Caesar is in relation with other foes in the book.

It is around Chapter 16 of this book that the Veneti are defeated.  The book only being 29 chapters in length, it makes sense that they disappear a short while after the halfway point of the book.  That this corresponds with the highest relative frequency of Caesar in the chapter can only be purposeful.  The following chart concerns another part of this war of many fronts.

Thus far, there has not been a single Roman mentioned more times than Caesar, but here Publius Crassus does very well to take over Aquitania, which is the area of southwestern France.  That the man features so prominently here might be worth looking into if the man not only survives the 8-year war, but also if he succeeds back in Rome with Caesar.  The final chart for Tertius concerns the end of the chapter, which again ends with the pacification of Gaul.

The chapter itself concludes with Caesar defeating these two groups of Gauls who, believing they are the last great hope for the Gallic people, attack the Romans, only to be defeated.  Like before, the pattern is for Caesar to be mentioned least in the beginning, but then most at the end.  Here, P. Crassus did so well fighting the Gauls that he was mentioned more times than Caesar himself, but so far the pattern holds.

So far my theory holds that there is something going on here stylistically, but there are still 4 books that were written by Caesar to be considered, and one not written by him.

There will shortly be more graphs about the following libris.

Valete,

Dominic Martyne