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51.16.

possidere: sc. eos, i.e. the Suessiones. — fuisseesse: notice the difference of time; fuisse (in the dir. disc. fuit) refers to time past, esse (dir. est), to time present, with respect to the verb of saying (dicebant, l. 8). — regem: showing that royal power had not yet been overthrown among the Belgians.


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