[*] 117.1. L. Domitio, etc.: cf. 94 1 and note. The consuls entered on their office Jan. 1, according to the official calendar; the real date appears to have been Dec. 12. Caesar's visit to Italy was therefore probably later. [*] 117.2. ut quotannis, etc.: cf. 48 28, 73 7. [*] 117.4. navis: see chapter on military affairs, IX. — navīs … curent, have as many vessels as possible built during the winter and the old ones repaired: cf. 82 7, 11 5, and note. [*] 117.5. modum formamque, style of build. [*] 117.6. subductionis: the vessels of the ancients were usually 'beached' and not left at anchor. —humiliores: agrees with eas, the understood object of facit. See note on 62 16. [*] 117.7. nostro: i.e. the Mediterranean. [*] 117.8. id: sc. tacit （§ 319 (206. c); B. 166. 3; H. 388. 5 (368. 3. N. 1); H-B. 222. a）. [*] 117.9. minus magnos seems to refer to the smooth ocean swell, compared with the angry "chopping seas" of the Mediterranean. [*] 117.10. iumentorum: not pack-animals so much as horses for his cavalry, the lack of which he felt so seriously the year before; see 110 6-9. [*] 117.11. actuarias, fitted with oars as well as sails. The Gallic ships, it will be remembered, did not have oars. See Bk. iii. ch. 14. [*] 117.12. humilitas: as compared with the high-banked galleys. [*] 117.13. armandas, fitting out; see introductory note. [*] 117.14. conventibus, proconsular or provincial courts. These courts were regularly held in the winter; cf. 48 29. [*] 117.15. Illyricum: cf. 73 7. —Pirustis: a tribe long allied with Rome, inhabiting the valley of the Drina. [*] 117.17. imperat: in the sense of to levy, to make requisition for; impero takes the acc. of the thing levied and the dat. of the person upon whom the levy is made. [*] 118.5. arbitros, arbitrators. [*] 118.6. litem, amount of damages. — poenam: i.e. the amount of compensation to be paid. [*] 118.8. Galliam revertitur: Caesar's activity during these winter months had been remarkable. He left his troops in Belgium about Jan. 1, travelled all through Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul, crossed over to Illyricum, and returned to his army again early in the spring. The distance was at least 2000 miles.
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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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