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6.15.

maturat: travelling, his biographers say, one hundred miles in a day, and reaching the Rhone in a week, according to Plutarch. — ab urbe: this word, unless some other place is indicated, always means Rome, THE CITY. Caesar was near, but not in the city, not being permitted to enter it while holding the military authority (imperium) of proconsul. Hence he says ab, not ex.proficisci: the so-called complementary infin., used like our own with verbs which require another action to complete their sense.


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