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92.9. praesidio castris: cf. 22 6, 54 3. 92.13.

priusquam: this is often used with the indic. to show that one actual fact precedes another, just as succession is denoted by postquam. Here the subjv. subordinates the temporal clause to the main idea, like the subjv. with cum; cf. also 57 20 and note. 92.14.

videri: sc. possent from the following posset. — rei: part. gen. 92.18.

per, over. 92.20.

apertissimis campis (see note on 62 27): i.e. the broad, treelessplains which abound in this part of the country. 92.21.

quae: acc. plu.; the antecedent is milium. — Cantabris: a very hardy people of the western Pyrenees.


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