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65.9.

constitisset: causal, showing why the enemy charged in that quarter ; but it is often impossible to say when the description of a situation passes over into cause. — magno intervallo, confertissimo agmine: best regarded as ablatives of manner, though we must remember that the Romans did not trouble themselves about our classifications. The ablative was the proper form for all these ideas; and so they used it for all without distinction, as we should use in, at, or by.


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