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190.14. quodputabat: referring to Lucterius. 190.15.

Cevenna: the pass crossing this range is about 4000 feet high. 190.16.

durissimo, etc.: Pompey was put in authority February 25 (by the old calendar, which was now about six weeks ahead of the actual time); Caesar, who left Italy directly after, probably crossed the Cevennes about the middle of January. 190.18.

summo labore: "these admirable soldiers were worthy of the genius of their chief," but such men as Caesar and Napoleon make that kind of soldiers. 190.21.

singulari homini, a solitary wayfarer, to say nothing of an army.


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