[*] 37.15. quod: a relative; antecedent is id. — per se, so far as he was concerned （a common expression with licet）. [*] 37.16. accessisset: the subject is Caesar. [*] 37.17. non respuit, etc.: notice the emphasis. Caesar did not rejectthe offer （as one might have supposed he would do）. [*] 37.18. iam … reverti, that he was beginning to return. — arbitrabatur: the imperfect indicating the beginning of an action. [*] 37.19. petenti [Caesar], when he asked it. — ultro: opposed to petenti. [*] 37.21. fore uti desisteret: periphrastic future （cf. 18 1, 28 17） following spem: that he would cease from his stubbornness. [*] 37.23. conloquio: dat. of purpose; § 382. 2 (233. b); B. 191; G. 356. N. 1; H. 433 (390. ii).; H-B. 361. [*] 37.26. vereri: sc. verb of saying from postulavit. Note the force of ne after vereri and cf. ut, 34 16. [*] 37.27. veniret: for veniat （hortatory） of dir. disc. — alia ratione, on any other terms. [*] 37.28. interpositā causā （abl. abs.）, by putting in an excuse. [*] 37.29. Gallorum equitatui: he had no other; see chapter on military affairs, I. 2. They numbered about 4000, about the same as a legion. [*] 38.1. commodissimum: pred. adj. after esse, whose subject is the infin. clause eo … imponere. [*] 38.2. Gallis equitibus, dat. following detractis （§ 381 (229); B. 188. d. 2; G. 345. R. 1; H. 427 (385. ii. 2); H-B. 371）. — eo （= in eos）, upon them. [*] 38.4. si quid, etc., if there should be need of any active measures; quid is adv. acc. （§ 390. c. d and N. 2 (240. a); B. 176. 3; G. 333. 1; H. 416. 2 (378) cf. H-B. 387. iii.）. [*] 38.5. facto: § 411. a (243. e. N); B. 218. 2. c; G. 406; H. 477. iii (414. N. 3); H-B. 430. 2. b — quod cum fieret, while this was going on. On the use of the rel. see note on 58 9. [*] 38.7. pollicitum: see 36 23. [*] 38.8. ad equum rescribere, he enrolled them among the knights. The word equites means not only the cavalry service in war, but a special privileged class in Roman society.
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