[*] 4.16. nihilo minus （often written in one word, as in English）, nevertheless. — constituerant, had resolved: observe the pluperfect, as following not a real but a historical present. [*] 4.17. ut … exeant, in apposition with id: as we should say, "namely, to go forth." Clauses thus used in apposition with a noun or pronoun take the form required by the verb on which the appositional word depends. Here facere would take a result clause with ut, and so this clause has that form. — ubi arbitrati sunt , when they judged: observe the regular use of the perfect indic. with ubi, postquam, etc., and cf. cum … conaretur above （§ 543 (324); B. 287. 1; G. 561; H. 602 (518 N. 1); H-B. 557）. [*] 4.18. rem, enterprise; cf. note on ea res, l. 4. — oppida, towns, fortified and capable of defence. [*] 4.19. vicos, villages, i.e. groups of houses about a single spot. The villages and houses were burned; partly to cut off hope of return, partly to prevent their being occupied by the Germans. — ad: cf.l. 8 above. — reliqua, etc.: i.e. isolated farmhouses not collected in villages. [*] 4.21. portaturi erant = intended to carry: § 194. a (129); B. 115; G. 247; H. 2236 (233); H-B. 162 — domum: following the verbal noun reditionis （§ 427. 2 (258. b); B. 182. 1. b; G. 337; H. 419. 1 (380. 2, 1); H-B. 450. b）. [*] 4.23. molita cibaria = meal. Food for 368,000 people （cf. 26 10） for three months required five or six thousand wagons and about twenty-five thousand draught animals. This would make a line of march of over thirty miles. — domo: § 427. 1 (258. a); B. 229. 1. b; G. 390. 2; H. 462. 4 (412. ii. 1); H-B. 451. a. [*] 5.1. Rauracis, etc. （§ 367 (227); B. 187. ii. a; G. 346; H. 426. 2 (385, ii); H-B. 362 and 1）: German tribes from the banks of the Rhine. [*] 5.2. uti: the older form for ut, common in Caesar. — eodem usi consilio, adopting the same plan: § 410 (249); B. 218. 1; G. 407. N. 3; H. 477 (421. 1.); H-B. 429 — una cum eis, along with them. The use of eis avoids ambiguity, though secum would be more regular, referring to the subject of the main clause; cf. note on se, 3 26. — oppidis … exustis, having burned, etc. （§ 493. 2 (113. c. N.); B. 356. 2. b; G. 410. R. 1; H. 640. 4 (550. N. 4); H-B. 602. 1）. [*] 5.3. Boios （from whom the name Bohemia is derived）: a Celtic tribe, whom the great German advance had cut off from their kinspeople towards the west, and who were now wandering homeless, some of them within the limits of Gaul. [*] 5.4. Noricum, etc., now eastern Bavaria and upper Austria — oppugnarant = oppugnaverant: § 181. a (128. a); B. 116. 1; G. 131. 1; H. 238 (235).; H-B. 163 [*] 5.5. receptos … adsciscunt: in English, in a sentence like this, we should use a separate verb instead of the participle （§ 496. N (292. R.); B. 337. 2; G. 664. R. I; H. 639 (549. 5); H-B. 604. 1）. Translate, they receive the Boii into their own number （ad se）, and vote them in as their allies. They do not merely unite with them, but incorporate them into their own body as a homeless people.
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