[*] 58.6. obsidibus acceptis primis, after he had received as hostages the chief men, etc. [*] 58.7. Galbae: see 51 19-21. [*] 58.9. Bellovacos: their territory lay thirty or forty miles due north of Paris, about Beauvais. — qui cum, and when they. A relative is often used to begin a new sentence where the English idiom would lead us to expect a demonstrative with a connective （here hi autem）. The relative serves to bind the new sentence more closely to the preceding. — se suaque omnia: cf. 50 15, and note. [*] 58.10. Bratuspantium: probably Breteuil, at the head of the Somme valley. Notice that Bratuspantium is in apposition with oppidum, not in the gen. according to the English usage. [*] 58.11. circiter, etc., [only] about five miles. — milia passuum: cf. 53 2, 57 10. [*] 58.12. maiores natu: § 131. c (91. c); B. 226. 1; G. 87. 9; H-B. 122; natu is abl. of specification. [*] 58.13. voce significare, show by the tones of their voice （of course they could not talk Latin）. — in eius fidem … venire: i.e. surrendered at discretion; cf. the clause se in fidem permittere, 50 15. Notice that the reflexive sese refers to the speakers , and represents the first person of the dir. disc.; ēius refers to Caesar, the person spoken to. [*] 58.14. neque, and [that they would] not. [*] 58.16. pueri mulieresque, women and children. — ex muro: English says on the wall, from another point of view. [*] 58.17. ab Romanis: § 396. a (239. c. N. 1); B. 178. 1. a; G. 339. N. 2; H. 411. 4 (374. N. 4); H-B. 393. c.
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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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