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33.20. moratur: cf. 24 24, and note. — percontatione, questions. — nostrorum: i.e. the soldiers who inquired in regard to the enemy. 33.21.

vocibus, talk. — Gallorum: these, it would seem, volunteered reports. The whole indicates a great deal of talk on the subject, to which Caesar attributes the panic. — mercatorum: see note on 1 8. — magnitudine: cf. altitudine, l. 14. Roman writers frequently speak of the huge size of the barbarians of the north as compared with themselves. 33.24.

congressos, having met them. 33.27.

hic: i.e. timor. 34.1.

reliquis: i.e. aids or attachés （contubernales, comites）, who attended the governor or commander of a province for the sake of military practice. These were often appointed from mere personal or political motives, and were of small use in the service, as it proved here. See chapter on military affairs, I. 7. 34.2.

quorum … inlata, these on various pretexts （§ 315. c (203. c); B. 253. 2; G. 319; H. 516. 1 (459. 1); H-B. 279. 3）. 34.3.

quam … diceret, which, they said （§ 592. 3 (341. d. R.); B. 323; G. 626. R.; H. 649. 1 (528. 1); H-B. 535. 2. a. N. 3）. See also note on qui … essent, 32 21. The verb is singular in Latin on account of alius. 34.6.

voltum fingere, put on a brave face （voltum refers to the expression of the face）. 34.7.

tabernaculis: see Fig. 129. 34.9.

totis castris: § 429 (258. f. 2); B. 228. 1. b; G. 388; H. 485. 1 (425. ii. 2); H-B. 436. a. — testamenta obsignabantur: indicating utter despair. 34.11.

in castris = in service. 34.15.

rem frumentariam … timere, feared [for] the supply of corn, lest it might not be conveniently brought in （§ 564 (331. f); B. 296. 2; G. 550; H. 567 (498. iii); H-B. 502. 4）. Observe the force of ut after vereri. 34.17.

nuntiabant: what did they say in dir. disc.? — cum iussisset, for cum iusseris （fut. perf.） of dir. disc. — castra moveri, to break camp; the regular expression. 34.19.

signa laturos: i.e. advance. This is the technical term, as the standards were planted in the ground during a halt.


Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.

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