[*] 78.19. huius civitatis: i.e. the Veneti, on the southern coast of Brittany, the modern Morbihan. [*] 78.20. orae: part. gen. — regionum: added to describe and limit orae. [*] 78.21. Britanniam: at this time an important Celtic country, having close commercial and social relations with the mainland. Doubtless a large part of the shipping trade was in the hands of the Veneti and their allies, whose commerce extended from Ireland to Spain. — consuerunt, are accustomed （§ 476 (279. e); B. 262. A; G. 236. R.; H. 299. 2 (297. i. 2); H-B. 487）; cf. 59 14. [*] 78.23. in magno … aperti: i.e. on a sea exposed to great and violent storms. [*] 78.24. omnīs … habent vectigalīs: i.e. levy tolls upon them all; vectigalīs is in pred. app. with omnīs. [*] 78.28. subita … consilia: this national characteristic of the Gauls is often alluded to by Caesar and other Roman historians. [*] 79.5. quam acceperint: § 592 (341); B. 323; G. 628; H. 643 (524); H-B. 535. 1. a. [*] 79.6. quam perferre, than to endure, following the comparative contained in malint. [*] 79.9. remittat: subjv. expressing a command in indir. disc., depending on the message implied in legationem mittunt. The dir. disc. would be "si vis," etc., "remitte."
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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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