Excerpt from Caesar's Gallic Wars. I chose a battle scene from the text, and I imagined it to be a simple story about the war through the eyes of a bystander. Since ancient times, there has been a custom when a battle has been won to record the scene on a stone monument, and this is also inspired by the characters engraved on the stone monument. Therefore, the signature part is not ‘scribebat’ but ‘fecit’ because of being aware of the carved (made) character rather than the written character. The X-height is 10 to represent an elegant and sophisticated style. The title SPQR uses the same Roman capital, but the x-height is about 8, and the writing style is different from that of a brush. One of the highlights of this work is the use of a variety of ligatures to save space, as the length of the text and the size of the letters are limited to the size of the paper. My friend's fashion inspired the colours used in this piece. The colour of the paper is her coat, and the colour of the text is her scarf. Before deciding on the colour for the letters, I asked myself over 100 times. As for the paper's colour, I looked at samples at a store until I found the particular shade I was looking for. When I created this work, I learned that Caesar's name could be spelt in multiple ways. His name is commonly spelled as Gaius but some people prefer to use the old spelling, which is Caius. So, when you noticed that I spelt his name with a C instead of a G, it wasn't a mistake but a conscious decision to add some variety. (The Greek notation looked interesting, but I don't know how to write it yet, so I'll leave it to you...) If you're interested, please search for it.

 

 

 

 

Horum adventu tanta rerum commutatio est facta ut nostri, etiam qui vulneribus confecti procubuissent, scutis innixi proelium redintegrarent, calones perterritos hostes conspicati etiam inermes armatis occurrerent, equites vero, ut turpitudinem fugae virtute delerent, omnibus in locis pugnae se legionariis militibus praeferrent.

At hostes, etiam in extrema spe salutis, tantam virtutem praestiterunt ut, cum primi eorum cecidissent, proximi iacentibus insisterent atque ex eorum corporibus pugnarent,his deiectis et coacervatis cadaveribus qui superessent ut ex tumulo tela in nostros conicerent et pila intercepta remitterent: ut non nequiquam tantae virtutis homines iudicari deberet ausos esse transire latissimum flumen, ascendere altissimas ripas, subire iniquissimum locum; quae facilia ex difficillimis animi magnitudo redegerat.