Story Translation

In class a few weeks ago, we read and translated a latin story from Wheelock: Chapter 33. In the story, one of the armies is the Helvetians. A tribe that lived in ancient Gaul, which is now modern day France and Switzerland. Within Gaul, the tribe was from Helvetia, which is still used as a name for Switzerland. The word Helvetia is also found on modern day Swiss coins and postal stamps.

A Swiss postal stamp: