[*] 57.20. postridie eius diei, next day （lit. on the day after that day）: for the gen., see § 359. b (223. e); B. 201. 3. a; H. 446. 5 (398. 5); H-B. 380. c. — priusquam … reciperent, before the enemy could recover themselves （§ 551. b (327); B. 292; G. 577; H. 605 (520); H-B. 507. 4. b）. [*] 57.21. in finīs … duxit: i.e. following his plan of subduing the tribes one after the other. [*] 57.22. Remis: cf. Galliae, 50 13. — magno itinere: see chapter on military affairs, VI. [*] 57.23. Noviodunum （now Soissons） about twenty miles west of Bibrax. Celtic dunum = English town; hence Noviodunum = Newton or Newburg. Soissons is derived from Suessiones. — ex itinere: i.e. as soon as he arrived, by filling up the ditch and scaling the walls, without waiting to throw up works or form regular lines of approach; cf. 53 2. [*] 57.24. esse: sc. oppidum for subject. [*] 57.25. paucis defendentibus （abl. abs. denoting concession）, though there were few defenders. — oppugnare means to attack; expugnare, to take （by storm）. Unable to take the town by storm, Caesar was obliged to begin a regular siege. See chapter on military affairs, VIII, and Figs. 43, 92, 93, 118, 120. [*] 57.26. quaeque, etc.: i.e. wood, earth, stones, etc.; the antecedent of quae, if expressed, would be ea. [*] 57.27. ad oppugnandum: § 506 (300) （cf. § 385. a (234. b)）; B. 338. 3, 192. 2. N.; G. 432 （cf. 359. R. 3）. H. 628 (542. III) （cf. 435.I (391. II.); H-B. 612. iii, 364. 6.） [*] 58.2. magnitudine: i.e. by the extent of these offensive operations. — quae, which （i.e. the like of which）. [*] 58.3. ante: adv. [*] 58.5. petentibus Remis, at the request of the Remi. — ut conservarentur: subst. clause of result, obj. of impetrant （§ 568 (332); B. 297. 1; G. 553. 1; H. 571. 1 (501); H-B. 521. 3. a）.
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Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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