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Biography

Francisco de Oliveira is Full Professor of the Institute of Classical Studies of the

University of Coimbra, Portugal; member of the Center of Classical and Humanistic

Studies of the University of Coimbra and Director of the Latin Studies; former Dean

of the Faculty of Letters (1996-2002); former President of the Euroclassica and of

the Portuguese Association for Classical Studies; former Director of the Institute of

Classical Studies and of Teacher Training Programmes including in-service training.

Conferences presented in many countries and publications in Portuguese, French,

Spanish, English and German.

Main research subject: theatre in general and especially sociology of theatre and the

tragedy of Seneca; political theory in antiquity, actually Cicero and Pliny the Younger;

currents of thought in the High Roman Empire; classical education in Portugal.

Summary

The present anthology of texts in Latin, drawn from classical antiquity to the pre-

sent, containing seventeen chapters dedicated to different countries of the Euro-

pean Union and the candidate countries, intends to fulfil the following aims: 1) to

consolidate th European heritage through collective, national and transnational

reflection on its past; 2) to present an image of Europe in its unity and diversity,

as envisioned by a group of classical language teachers from each of the member

countries and from those who are candidates for inclusion; 3) to reflect upon what

the European Union has been, what it is and what it will be, using as a basis our

cultural inheritance as it is written in the Latin language.

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A. L’Antiquité

À.l’époque.de.leur.irruption.dans.l’Histoire,.les.Helvètes.occupent.pra-

tiquement.le.territoire.actuel.de.la.Suisse..D’après.Tacite.(Germ..28),.ils.y.

sont.venus.de.Germanie,.mais.ce.sont.des.Celtes,.des.Gaulois,.qui,.comme.

les.Belges,.se.frottent.régulièrement.à.leurs.belliqueux.voisins,.les.Germains,.

ce.qui.leur.vaut.une.certaine.respectabilité..N’ont.-ils.pas,.de.plus,.entraînés.

dans.la.mouvance.des.Cimbres,.infligé.une.défaite.à.l’armée.romaine.en.

107.av..J.-C..–.épisode.dont.s’est.souvenu.le.peintre.vaudois.Gleyre.pour.

ses.Romains passant sous le joug.(1858)1?.Sous.la.poussée.des.Germains.

ou.dans.la.perspective.d’un.soulèvement.gaulois.généralisé,.ils.décident,.

en.58.av..J..-C.,.de.quitter.leur.territoire.et.se.heurtent.à.César.venu.leur.

barrer.le.chemin.avant.de.les.renvoyer.sur.leurs.terres.

1. L’expédition des Helvètes2

2. Apud Helvetios longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus Orgetorix. Is M.

Messala, [et P.] M. Pisone consulibus regni cupiditate inductus coniuratio‑

nem nobilitatis fecit et civitati persuasit ut de finibus suis cum omnibus

copiis exirent: perfacile esse, cum virtute omnibus praestarent, totius

Galliae imperio potiri. Id hoc facilius iis persuasit quod undique loci

1..Musée.cantonal.des.Beaux.-Arts,.Lausanne.2.(Caes..Gal..1..2-3,.5-7.et.27-29)

M.-Christine.Haller.Aellig..-.Lycée.Denis.-de.-Rougemont,.NeuchâtelEmail:.christine_haller@hotmail.com

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natura Helvetii continentur: una ex parte flumine Rheno latissimo atque

altissimo, qui agrum Helvetium a Germanis dividit; altera ex parte monte

Iura altissimo, qui est inter Sequanos et Helvetios; tertia lacu Lemanno

et flumine Rhodano, qui provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit. His

rebus fiebat ut et minus late vagarentur et minus facile finitimis bellum

inferre possent; qua ex parte homines bellandi cupidi magno dolore

adficiebantur. Pro multitudine autem hominum et pro gloria belli atque

fortitudinis angustos se fines habere arbitrabantur, qui in longitudinem

milia passuum CCXL, in latitudinem CLXXX patebant.

3. His rebus adducti et auctoritate Orgetorigis permoti constituerunt

ea quae ad proficiscendum pertinerent comparare (…).

5. Post eius mortem nihilo minus Helvetii id quod constituerant facere

conantur, ut e finibus suis exeant. Ubi iam se ad eam rem paratos esse arbi‑

trati sunt, oppida sua omnia, numero ad duodecim, vicos ad quadringentos,

reliqua privata aedificia incendunt; frumentum omne, praeterquam quod

secum portaturi erant, comburunt, ut domum reditionis spe sublata paratio‑

res ad omnia pericula subeunda essent, trium mensum molita cibaria sibi

quemque domo efferre iubent. Persuadent Rauracis et Tulingis et Latobicis

finitimis suis uti eodem usi consilio oppidis suis vicisque exustis una cum iis

proficiscantur, Boiosque, qui trans Rhenum incoluerant et in agrum Noricum

transierant Noreiamque oppugnarant, receptos ad se socios sibi adsciscunt.

6. Erant omnino itinera duo, quibus itineribus domo exire possent:

unum per Sequanos, angustum et difficile, inter montem Iuram et flumen

Rhodanum, vix qua singuli carri ducerentur; mons autem altissimus

inpendebat, ut facile perpauci prohibere possent; alterum per provinciam

nostram, multo facilius atque expeditius, propterea quod inter fines

Helvetiorum et Allobrogum, qui nuper pacati erant, Rhodanus fluit isque

non nullis locis vado transitur. Extremum oppidum Allobrogum est pro‑

ximumque Helvetiorum finibus Genua. Ex eo oppido pons ad Helvetios

pertinet. Allobrogibus sese vel persuasuros, quod nondum bono animo

in populum Romanum viderentur, existimabant vel vi coacturos, ut per

suos fines eos ire paterentur. Omnibus rebus ad profectionem conparatis

diem dicunt, qua die ad ripam Rhodani omnes conveniant. Is dies erat

a. d. V. Kal. Apr. L. Pisone, A. Gabinio consulibus.

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