[*] 69.4. supra: see 60 9. — cum … venirent, while on the way. — omnibus copiis: cf. 50 16, 54 8. [*] 69.7. sua omnia: cf. 50 15, and note. — oppidum: often identified with the citadel of Namur, at the confluence of the Meuse and Sambre. See Fig. 41. For a striking description of the locality, see Motley's Dutch Republic, III. 224. Others place it more probably at Falhize, opposite Huy, on the Meuse below Namur, though neither place quite agrees with Caesar's description. [*] 69.8. quod cum: cf. qui cum, 58 9, and note. [*] 70.1. pedum: cf. 52 27. [*] 70.3. conlocabant: notice the change of tense from the pluperf. [*] 70.4. ex Cimbris Teutonisque: abl. of source; cf. 51 1. See note on 7 1. [*] 70.6. impedimentis refers to cattle as well as portable baggage, hence the two verbs, agere and portare. Cf. ferre et agere, to plunder. [*] 70.7. custodiam, a guard, whose duty it was to keep an eye on the booty, etc.; praesidium, a garrison, who were to hold the place. The words are in apposition with milia. [*] 70.8. sex milia: this Teutonic military colony was probably merely adopted into the Celtic tribe of the Aduatuci, thus giving rise to the story that the whole tribe were of Teutonic descent. — unā （adv.）, with it, i.e. the impedimenta. — hi: i.e. the six thousand. — eorum: i.e. the Cimbri and Teutons. [*] 70.9. obitum, destruction: the Teutons were totally defeated by Gains Marius at Aquae Sextiae （Aix les Bains）, B.C. 102; the Cimbri, by Marius and Catulus, the next year, at Vercellae. — alias: adv. [*] 70.10. inferrent: the regular word for offensive war. — inlatum [sibi bellum] defenderent, defended themselves when attacked. — consensu eorum omnium, by mutual agreement, i.e. between themselves and all their neighbors. [*] 70.11. sibi domicilio: cf. 54 3. — hunc locum: the land between the Meuse and the Scheldt.
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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
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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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