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9.11. iam, by this time.angustias: i.e. the Pas-de-l'Ecluse before described; see Figs. 6, 7. The entire train of the Helvetii has been reckoned at 8500 four-horse wagons, extending some 50 miles (cf. note on 4 23). The passage must have been extremely slow. They probably followed in the line of the modern railroad as far as Culoz, then to Amberieu and across the plateau des Dombes to the Saône between Lyons and Macon, a distance of nearly a hundred miles. It is calculated that Caesar must have been absent two months in Italy, and the march of the Helvetians probably took about the same time. This would make the time of these events about the latter part of June.


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