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77.5. cumpugnaretur, when the fight had been [and was still] going on§ 471. b (277. b); B. 260. 4; G. 234; H. 535 (469. ii. 2); H-B. 485). 77.7.

languidioribus nostris: abl. abs., expressing cause. 77.9.

Baculus: see 67 1, and note. 77.13.

unam: note the emphasis, only one. 77.14.

experirentur: note that, as usual, the histor. pres. docent has the effect of a secondary tense on the dependent verb. 77.15.

intermitterent: a command in indir. disc., following certiores facit in the sense of instructs. 77.16.

telaexciperent: i.e. the Romans were to gather up the spent weapons to use them against the enemy, as their weapons were almost exhausted (l. 6).


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    • A. A. Howard, Benj. L. D'Ooge, G. L. Kittredge, J. B. Greenough, Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, 471
    • Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, 234
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