[*] 79.11. aberat longius, was too far off, i.e. to take command at once in person. — naves longas, galleys. See chapter on military affairs, IX, and Figs. 48, 51. The Gallic ships, it seems, used sails alone, without oars （see 84 25-28）. [*] 79.12. Ligeri: the Loire, on the banks of which Crassus was wintering. — institui, to be organized, i.e. in gangs for the several galleys. [*] 80.1. cum primum: the first moment when （lit. when first）. Caesar has spent the winter as usual in Cisalpine Gaul. He reached his army perhaps in April or early in May. [*] 80.3. [certiores facti]: omit in translation. [*] 80.4. admisissent: indir. quest. — legatos … coniectos （the specific act）: in app. with facinus, but the construction is. determined by intellegebant; see note on 4 17; legatos: they were hardly such in the sense of international law. They were only Caesar's legati or lieutenants. [*] 80.5. quod nomen: cf. quarum rerum, 76 29, and note. [*] 80.8. hoc: abl. of degree of difference, approaching the idea of cause. [*] 80.9. pedestria itinera, etc., approaches by land. [*] 80.10. concisa, impeditam: with esse. They depend upon sciebant. [*] 80.11. inscientiam: i.e. the Romans' lack of acquaintance. —neque … confidebant, and they trusted that our armies could not, etc. Notice that connective and negative have an attraction for each other, though we separate them. [*] 80.13. ut … acciderent, etc.: granting that, etc.: ut here introduces a concessive clause. This is the only instance in the "Gallic War." Note that when so used the subjv. mood follows （§ 440 (266. c); B. 278; G. 608; H. 586. ii (515. iii); H-B. 532. 2. b）. [*] 81.1. posse and the following infinitives depend upon perspiciebant, line 18. [*] 81.3. gesturi essent: subjv. of ind. disc. Observe the first perphrastic conj. referring to future time. [*] 81.4. longe aliam … atque, very different … from; cf. aliter ac, 62 6. — concluso: i.e. like the Mediterranean, where there is no tide, and which is quiet as compared with the Atlantic. [*] 81.9. socios: pred. apposition ; cf. vectigalis, 78 25. — Osismos, etc.: the coast tribes as far as Flanders. The name Lexovii remains in Lisieux; Namnetes in Nantes; Diablintres in Jablins.
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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
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BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.
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BOOK VI. BOOK SIXTH.—B.C. 53.
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Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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