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6.24.

sibiliceat: observe carefully the construction of the indir. disc. (§ 584, 585 (336. a, b ); B. 317, 318; G. 650; H. 642-653 (523-531); H-B. 534. 1.2); in dir. disc. it would be: Nobis estin animo sine ullo maleficio iter per provinciam facere, propterea quod aliud iter habemus nullum; rogamus, ut tua voluntate id nobis facere liceat. Careful attention to this construction in the beginning will be amply repaid later. — sibi: dat. of possession (§ 373 (231); B. 190;G. 349; H. 430 (387); H-B. 374); the subject of esse is the clause iterfacere, while the whole passage, sibiliceat, is the object of dicerent. Render, that they had [it was to them] in mind to march, etc.


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