[*] 238.1. at: to mark the change of scene. [*] 238.7. crudelitatem: perhaps so in a Gaul, but in a Roman it would be constantiam. [*] 238.10. deditionis: a mere "laying down of arms." [*] 238.12. cum … est, I have to do with those. [*] 238.14. animi est, etc.: the infin. clause following is in app. with ista. From the English idiom we should expect istud, but in Latin such pronouns agree with the predicate. [*] 238.16. offerant, ferant: subjv. of characteristic. [*] 238.17. atque, and yet.—probarem … viderem: apodosis and protasis in a contrary-to-fact supposition ; see § 517 (308); B. 304; G. 597; H. 579 (510); H-B. 581. [*] 238.18. tantum potest: see vocab.—dignitas: i.e. of those who advocate making a sally. [*] 238.19. vitae nostrae: depending on iacturam, to be supplied according to the Latin idiom. [*] 238.21. quid animi, what heart. [*] 238.22. propinquis, consanguineis: dat. of poss. after fore. [*] 238.27. prosternere, subicere: connected by nec with exspoliare. [*] 239.2. animi causa, for the pleasure of it.—illorum: the Gauls; his: the Romans.—exerceri, are toiling. [*] 239.4. testibus, as witnesses, pred. app. [*] 239.6. consili: pred. gen.—facere: sc. meum consilium est, from the preceding. [*] 239.7. Cimbrorum see note on 7 1. They did great damage in laying waste Gaul and Spain before they turned to Italy. [*] 239.12. pulcherrimum in pred. agreement with the two preceding infinitives.—quid, etc., what was there in that war like this? [*] 239.17. quos: the antecedent is horum. [*] 239.21. finitimam: "over the border,"—the Province. [*] 239.22. securibus: the lictor's axes, the sign not simply of military rule, but of bloody execution （as a servile insurrection would be revenged）.
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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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