The Rebellion of Dumnorix and the Second expedition to Britain Events manipulation in Caesar's De bello Gallico V 1-7

In this article I provide a stylistic commentary on the narrative techniques employed in Caesar's presentation of the events preceding the second British expedition and narrated in Gall. v 1-7. I firstly contextualise Caesar's second expedition to Britain in his uninterrupted search for new enemies. Then, I discuss the narrative organisation of the first five chapters of the book v and offer a close-reading and a rhetorical analysis concerning Caesar's account of the rebellion and execution of the Aeduan commander Dumnorix (Gall. v 6-7). In the end, I show how Caesar manipulated the narrative to conceal that the situation in Gaul in Spring 54 was so dangerous that it should have prevented him from leaving the continent.