[*] 50.27a. quid … possent, what strength they had in war; quid is cognate acc. with adv. force （§ 390. c and d. N. 2 (240. a); B. 176. 3; G. 334; H. 409. 1, 416. 2 (371. ii. (2), 378. 2); cf. H-B. 387. iii）. — sic, as follows. — reperiebat: for force of the tense cf. adferebantur, 49 2; and note. Observe that the rest of the chapter is in indir. disc., except the words Remi dicebant, 51 8. — plerosque, etc.: Direct — Plerique Belgae sunt orti ab Germanis, Rhenumque … traducti propter loci fertilitatem ibi consederunt, Gallosque qui ea loca incolebant expulerunt, solique sunt qui patrum nostrorum memoria, … Teutonos Cimbrosque intra suos finis ingredi prohibuerint; qua ex re fit uti … magnam sibi auctoritatem … sumant. De numero eorum omnia （nos） habemus explorata … propterea quod propinquitatibus … coniuncti, quantam quisque multitudinem … ad id bellum pollicitus sit cognovimus. Plurimum inter eos Bellovaci … valent; hi possunt conficere armata milia centum, polliciti ex eo numero electa milia sexaginta, totiusque belli imperium sibi postulant. Suessiones nostri sunt finitimi; finis latissimos feracissimosque agros possident. Apud eos fuit rex nostra etiam memoria Diviciacus, toituis Galliae potentissimus, qui cum magnae partis harum regionum tun etiam Britanniae imperium obtinuit; nunc est rex Galba; ad hunc … summa totius belli … defertur; oppida habent numero XII, pollicentur milia armata quinquaginta; totidem Nervii, qui maxime feri inter ipsos habentur, longissimeque absunt; quindecim milia Atrebates, （likewise） Ambiani, Morini, etc … . Condrusos, Eburones, etc … . qui … Germani appelantur arbitramur （conficere posse or polliceri） ad XL milia.
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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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