[*] 89.21. soldurios, paid retainers （hence soldiers）, a Gallic word. It is related that these soldurii were dressed in royal garments like their chief. [*] 89.22. condicio: the same condition of service was found among the Germans （Bk. vi. ch. 23）, and was the foundation of feudal vassalage. — commodis: abl. with fruantur. [*] 89.23. quorum amicitiae, to whose friendship. — si quid … accidat: a euphemism, cf. 16 14. [*] 89.24. sibi mortem, etc.: cf. 4 15. [*] 89.26. qui … recusaret: ref. clause of characteristic ; cf. 5 6, 51 4. [*] 89.27. cum his （repeated from cum devotis; cf. repetition of vidit, 67 7）, with these （I say）.
Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
text:
book:
chapter:
This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
text comm
BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
book 2
BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.
BOOK FOURTH. — B.C. 55.
BOOK FIFTH.—B.C. 54.
BOOK VI. BOOK SIXTH.—B.C. 53.
BOOK SEVENTH.—B.C. 52.
Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.