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50.1. nuntiis: abl. of cause; cf. mobilitate, 49 11. — duas legiones … misit: these were numbered XIII and XIV, making with the others （VII-XIl） eight in all, amounting （with auxiliaries） to perhaps 60,000 men. 50.2.

initā aestate: abl. abs., expressing time when; § 419 (255); B. 227. 2. a; G. 665; H. 489. 1 (431. 1) H-B. 421. 1; aestas is the period from the spring equinox to that of autumn. 50.3.

qui deduceret （the antecedent is Q. Pedium）: relative clause of purpose （§ 531 (317. 2); B. 282. 2; G. 630; H. 589.ii (497. 1); H-B. 502. 2）. — Pedium: Pedius was Caesar's nephew, son of his sister Julia. — legatum: see note on 8 22. 50.4.

cum primum, etc.: i.e. when grass and young grain began to be abundant, so that the cavalry and baggage animals could subsist. — inciperet: cf. note on esset, 49 1. — ad exercitum: i.e. to Vesontio, in the country of the Sequani. See map, Fig. 26. 50.5.

Senonibus: these were north of the Haedui, on the upper course of the Seine; their name is preserved in <Sens. — reliquis Gallis, the rest of the Gauls （§ 293 (193); cf. B. 241. 1; H. 497. 4 (440. N. 1); H-B. 346. c）. 50.6.

Belgis: dat. with finitimi （§ 384 (234. a); B. 192. 1; G. 359; H. 434. 2 (391. 1); H-B. 362）. — uti … cognoscant, to find out. This is a subst. clause of purpose in apposition with negotium; § 563 (331); B. 295. 1; G. 546; H. 564. iii (499. iii); H-B. 502. 3. a. — gerantur: subjv. as depending on cognoscant （§ 593 (342); B. 324. 1; G. 629; H. 652 (529. ii); H-B. 539）. 50.7.

seque … faciant, and inform him （Caesar）; se is here used as the indirect reflexive; see § 300. 2 (196. a. 2); B. 244. ii. a; G. 521; H. 504 (449. 1); H-B. 262. 2. — constanter, consistently （with one another）; their accounts all agreed. 50.8.

manūs （acc. plu., subject of cogi）: small bands or companies. 50.9.

tum vero: see vocab. and observe the emphatic position. — dubitandum non [esse], he must no longer hesitate; the infin. of the second periphrastic conjugation, here used in indir. disc. after existimavit （§ 158 (113. d. N.); B. 115; G. 251; H. 531 (466. N); H-B. 162.）; dubitandum is impers. （§ 208. d (146. d); B. 337. 7. b; G. 208. 2; H. 192. 1 (195. ii. 1); H-B. 600. 3. a）. — quin can follow only a negative expression, as here non existimavit, etc. — quin … proficisceretur, to set out （lit. but that he should, etc.）: relative clause of result, depending on dubitandum [esse] （§ 558. a (319. d); B. 284. 3; G. 555; H. 596. 1 (505. i. 1); cf. H-B. 502. 3. b）. In the sense of hesitate, dubito regularly takes the infin. and not quin, but exceptions occur, as here. 50.10.

re comparata: on translation of the abl. abs., cf. note on 49 6. 50.11.

diebus: abl. of time within which （§ 423 (256); B. 231; G. 393; H. 486 (429); H-B. 439）. — finīs: i.e. north of the Matrona （Marne）, crossing somewhere between Bas le duc and Châlons （sur Marne）. The march from Besançon would be about one hundred and forty miles or ten miles a day. He would so be about thirty-five or forty miles southeast of Durocortorum （Rheims）, the capital of the Remi.


Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.

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