[*] 75.3. concesserat: indict because not part of the indir. disc.; cf. qui … appellantur, 52 5, and note. [*] 75.4. montīs: not the higher ranges, but the lower heights directly upon the valley. [*] 75.5. id, this, in apposition with ut … caperent; cf. note on 4 17. [*] 75.8. neque eam plenissimam, etc., and that not entirely full. The twelfth legion had suffered severely in the battle on the Sambre （Bk. ii. ch. 25）, and was probably already below the normal strength before the detachments were sent off. — detractis: see 74 11. [*] 75.9. commeatūs … causa: gerundive of purpose; cf. gerund, 74 8. [*] 75.10. despiciebant, existimabant, etc.: notice the imperfects describing the situation. See note on 3 5. [*] 75.11. cum ipsi … decurrerent, when they should charge down from the hills upon the valley. The imperf. subjv. of indir. disc. with cum is here equivalent to the fut. indict of dir. disc. [*] 75.13. accedebat quod, and besides （lit. it was added that）. The subject of accedebat is the clause quod … dolebant; cf. 60 25. [*] 76.2. Romanos … adiungere: indir. disc. after persuasum habebat = they had persuaded themselves （lit. they had it persuaded to themselves）. With persuasum habebant cf. coactum habebat,13 4, compertum habere, 40 20, habere explorata, 51 8, and notes.
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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
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BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.
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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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