[*] 89.5. superioribus victoriis; i.e. those just related; see § 431. a (254. b. 2); B. 218. 3; G. 401. N. 6; H. 476. 3 (425. ii. 1. N.); H-B. 424. [*] 89.7. sine imperatore … adulescentulo duce: an imperator is the chief commander of an army, holding the imperium, or power of military command conferred on him by regular formalities; dux is a general designation for any person holding a command, and might be given to a subordinate officer, like Crassus, who acted as an agent and under the imperium of his superiors. [*] 89.9. perspici: the subj. is the indir. quest. quid … possent. [*] 89.12. vineas turrīsque egit: see chapter on military affairs, VIII, and Figs. 33, 43, 92. 93, 120. [*] 89.13. cuniculis, mines, so called from their likeness to rabbits' burrows. The mine was intended to run under the Roman agger. The roof was carefully propped up with wooden posts, and these being set on fire, when they were burned through, the entire mass of Roman works would fall into the pit. [*] 89.15. aerariae secturaeque: this seems to mean copper mines and quarries （not entirely underground）; but the meaning of the words is not perfectly clear. — diligentia: the Romans doubtless met the attack with countermines. [*] 89.18. faciunt, they do [it].
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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
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BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.
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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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