I've got a query about Caesar's "De Bello Gallico". I'm translating the 7th book and I found the word "conventus"(1st section). What's this conventus?
I don't need a translation but I need to know what this conventus was and why Caesar had to go back to Italy "ad conventus agendos".
Caesaris liber: De Bello Gallico
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Perseus has a note on this passage that Italiam means Cisalpine Gaul (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/pt ... ook%3D%237). L&S has agere conventum = to hold a court (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/pt ... =conventus).[/url]