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3.19.

quod: the relative. — ante: i.e. before the popular movement. — Dumnorigi (dat. after persuadet): Dumnorix, a younger brother, restless, ambitious, and strongly attached to the old aristocracy of the clan; therefore a bitter enemy of the Roman supremacy. He afterwards headed a desertion of Caesar's cavalry, just before the second invasion of Britain, but was pursued and killed (Bk. v. ch. 6). It is implied that in the popular movement Dumnorix had come into prominence. It must be borne in mind that the personal rule of a chief (regnum) was an entirely different thing from the prominence (principatum) which one man or another might have in the national councils, as the latter had no constitutional or official power.


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