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castella (lit. "little fortifications"), redoubts. (See treatise on military affairs, V). In them were stationed guards (praesidia). The redoubts were sufficiently numerous so that the guard from one or another could quickly reach any point in the lines that might be threatened. — quo faciliusposset, that he may the more easily: the usual construction where a comparative is to be used; without the comparative it would be utposset§ 531. a (317. b); B. 282. 1. a; G. 545. 2; H. 568. 7 (497. ii. 2); H-B. 502. 2 and b).


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