. Licinius Crassus were consuls for the second time.]

[Footnote 494: Caesar, iv. c. 12. Plutarch here calls the Commentaries
[Greek: ephemerides], which means a Diary or Day-book. The proper
Greek word would be [Greek: hypomnemata]. Kaltwasser accordingly
concludes that Plutarah appears to have confounded the Ephemerides and
the Commentarii, or at least to have used the word [Greek:
ephemerides] improperly instead of [Greek: hypomnemata] . There is no
proof that Caesar kept a diary. That kind of labour is suited to men of
a different stamp from him. Plutarch means the Commentarii. It is true
that Servius (_Ad AEneid._ xi. 743) speaks of a diary (Ephemeris) of
Caesar, which records his being once captured by the Gauls. But see the
note of Davis on this passage (Caesar, ed. Oudendorp, ii. 999).
Suetonius, who enumerates Caesar's writings (Caesar, 55, 56), mentions
no Ephemeris. There were abundant sources for anecdotes about Caesar.
The Roman himself wrote as an historian: he was not a diary keeper.]

[Footnote 495: Tanusius Geminus wrote a history which is mentioned by
Suetonius (Caesar, 9). Cato's opinion on this occasion was merely
dictated by party hostility and personal hatred. His proposal was
unjust and absurd. Caesar had good reason for writing his Anticato.]

[Footnote 496: Or Sigambri, a German tribe on the east bank of the
Lower Rhine. They bordered on the Ubii, and were north of them. The
name probably remains in the Sieg, a small stream which enters the
Rhine on the east bank, nearly opposite to Bonn.]

[Footnote 497: Caesar describes the construction of this bridge (iv.
17) without giving any particulars as to the place where it was made.
The situation can only be inferred from a careful examination of the
previous part of his history, and it has been subject of much
discussion, in which opinions are greatly divided. The narratives of
Dion Cassius (39. c. 48) and Florus (iii. 10) give some assistance
towards the solution of the question. Professor Mueller, in an
excellent article in the 'Jahrbuecher des Vereins von
Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande' (vii. 1845), has proved that the
bridge must have been built near Coblenz. Caesar defeated the Germans
in the angle between the Moselle and the Rhine. He must have crossed
the Moselle in order to find a convenient place for his bridge, which
he would find near Neuwied. The bridge abutted on the east bank on the
territory of the Ubii, who were his friends. The