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187.19. Cenabum: now Orléans, on the Loire. 187.20.

negotiandi: their business was money-lending, the farming of taxes, purchase of slaves or corn, and the like. Cicero had said, some years before, that business affairs in Gaul were wholly controlled by Roman citizens. 187.21.

constiterant, had settled. 187.24.

major atque inlustrior: i.e. than usual. 187.25.

clamore: a sort of vocal telegraph, by which, as also by signal-fires, messages were conveyed, it is said, from towers 500 yards apart. 187.27.

Cenabi: locative. 187.28.

antevigiliam: between nine and ten at night; the sending of the message thus occupying about sixteen hours.—Arvernonum: i.e. the country now called Auvergne, a region always noted for the vigor and hardihood of its people, who now became leaders in the great revolt, and furnished its dauntless chief Vercingetorix.


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