America est omnis divisa in tria genera hominum

For readers who are less than familiar with the books properly known as Caesaris Comentarii de Bello Gallico (or more simply, Caesar’s Gallic Wars), written between about 58 and  44 BCE, please understand that almost all European schoolchildren of a certain generation used to know that the first of these eight books began, “Gallia est omnis divisa in tres partes” or “All of Gaul is divided into three parts”. … READ MORE …