[*] 84.8. neque: see note on 80 11. [*] 84.9. eis noceri posse, they could be harmed. Observe that the expression is impers., and cf.56 24 and note. [*] 84.10. quae ubi: cf. note on qui cum, 58 9. [*] 84.11. paratissimae, fully equipped; ornatissimae, thoroughly furnished. The battle was probably fought in the bay of Quiberon, off the heights of St. Gildas, on which Caesar was encamped. The fleet of Crassus issued from the Loire and took a northwesterly course. Meanwhile the fleet of the Veneti came out of the Auray estuary, and passing through the Morbihan entrance to the bay, encountered the Romans directly opposite Caesar's camp. See Fig. 49. [*] 84.13. neque satis Bruto … constabat, and Brutus coul not make out （agerent and insisterent refer to Brutus and his officers）. [*] 84.14. tribunis militum, etc.: in the ancient modes of fighting, the fleet was only a part of the army, and was commanded by the military officers, as here. [*] 84.16. noceri, etc.: cf. similar phrase above, line 9. [*] 84.17. excitatis, raised. The abl. abs. has a concessive force, as is shown by the following tamen. [*] 84.18. ex barbaris navibus, on the enemy's ships; for force of ex, cf. una ex parte, ex itinere, etc. [*] 84.20. magno usui, of great service （cf. auxilio, 81 26）, in fact turning threatened disaster to victory; but Caesar will not use words that hint a possible defeat. [*] 84.22. muralium falcium, wall-hooks, long poles with sickle-shaped hooks attached, like those used by hook-and-ladder companies for pulling down walls （see Fig. 127）. The gen. limits formae understood, which would be dat. after absimili. — cum= whenever, as often as, and the sentence following is a general condition, the verbs comprehensi adductique erant being in the protasis, and praerumpebantur in the apodosis expressing repeated action, which is regularly expressed in Latin by the indict; cf. 59 13, and note. [*] 84.24. praerumpebantur, etc., they [the halyards] were torn away by driving the ship forward with the oars. [*] 84.26. Gallicis navibus: dat. of reference used for poss. gen. [*] 85.1. paulo fortius factum: one of Caesar's mild expressions for an act of remarkable daring.
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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
book 2
BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.
BOOK FOURTH. — B.C. 55.
BOOK FIFTH.—B.C. 54.
BOOK VI. BOOK SIXTH.—B.C. 53.
BOOK SEVENTH.—B.C. 52.
Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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