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vergit, etc.,slopes to the North; the highlands （Cevennes） are along the southern boundary, and the rivers in that quarter flow in their main course northerly. — septentriones （septem triones, "the seven plough-oxen"）: i.e. the constellations of the Great and Little Bear. The word is used both in the singular, as below, and in the plural, as here.

Fig. 109: Gallic coin.


Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.

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