[*] 87.8. pro perfuga, in the character of a deserter. [*] 87.10. neque longius esse quin: an idiomatic shorthand expression amounting to that not later than the following night Sabinus would, etc. [*] 87.14. iri: depending on oportere. [*] 87.15. superiorum dierum, on the previous days; see note on belli, below. [*] 87.17. spes … belli: subj. gen. denoting the source; notice that the regular way to express the relation between two substantive ideas is by the genitive. One idea is conceived as belonging to the other in some sense. See note, 62 20. [*] 87.18. fere … credunt, most men are glad to believe, etc. [*] 87.19. non prius … quam, not … until; cf. 81 20. [*] 87.21. ut … victoria （abl. abs.）, as if victory were already assured. [*] 87.22. sarmentis, cuttings, young growth trimmed off from trees; virgultis, brushwood.
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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
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BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.
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BOOK FIFTH.—B.C. 54.
BOOK VI. BOOK SIXTH.—B.C. 53.
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Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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