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32.19. eodem tempore, etc.: in Latin the two actions are made coordinate, but in English we should be more likely to make one subordinate, at the same time that, etc. 32.20.

Treveris: from the region of Trèves in the valley of the Moselle. — questum: supine （after veniebant, supplied from the one preceding）; see 26 15, 28 8, and notes. 32.21.

qui … essent: § 592. 3 (341. d); B. 323; G. 650; H. 643 (524); H-B. 535. 1. a. The following passage is a good example of what is called informal indir. disc. The formal indir. disc. introduced by a verb of saying has the main clause in the infin. and dependent clauses in the subjv. But often the verb of saying and the thing said are expressed together in some one word or phrase, as here questum. In such cases the dependent clauses have the subjv. just as in formal indir. disc.; cf. 13 17, 15 2, 16 24 for similar examples. 32.22.

ne … quidem: cf. note on 29 20. 32.24.

pagos （see note, 10 12）: these divisions were those known as hundreds, meaning not only the people, but the district they occupied. — Suevorum: this is a general name, embracing a number of tribes that lived in the interior of Germany. Their habits and customs are described in the opening chapters of Book iv. 32.27.

maturandum sibi （sc. esse）: impers. （§ 208. d (146. d); B. 138. iv; G. 208. 2; H. 518. 1 (465. 1); H-B. 600. 3. a）; cf. exspectandum, 9 24, and note. 32.29.

minus facile, not very easily: i.e. it would be impossible; but this is avoided as a word of ill omen. — resisti （impers., § 372 (230); B. 187. ii. b; G. 217; H. 426. 3 (384. 5); H-B. 364. 2.）: cf. note on rebus, 30 19. 33.1.

magnis itineribus: see chapter on military affairs, VI. 33.2.

contendit: the place from which Caesar started is uncertain. After the destruction of the Helvetian force, he appears in the country of the Lingones sixty to eighty miles north of Bibracte. In that vicinity he held a council of the Gallic chiefs （ch. 30）, but whether he remained there is not stated. He probably came towards the north in the direction of Langres.


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

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