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4.23.

molita cibaria = meal. Food for 368,000 people (cf. 26 10) for three months required five or six thousand wagons and about twenty-five thousand draught animals. This would make a line of march of over thirty miles. — domo: § 427. 1 (258. a); B. 229. 1. b; G. 390. 2; H. 462. 4 (412. ii. 1); H-B. 451. a.


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