[*] 101.18. acie triplici: i.e. a march in line of battle; see chapter on military affairs, VI and VII. [*] 101.19. quid ageretur, what was going on. [*] 101.20. possent: cf. 97 9, 100 34. [*] 101.21. et … et, both … and. [*] 101.23. ne … an … an （§ 335 (211); B. 162. 4; G. 458; H. 380 (353)）: the three infinitives all belong to praestaret, whether it was better. [*] 101.24. quorum timor cum: note the emphatic order. [*] 101.29. reliqua multitudo: the presence of women and children shows that it was a migration for settlement, not a mere inroad for plunder. [*] 102.1. ad quos consectandos （freq. of sequor）, to hunt them down. Referring to this massacre of helpless fugitives, Plutarch, in his "Life of Caesar," writes that when the Senate was voting public thanksgiving and processions on account of the victory, Cato proposed that Caesar should be given up to the barbarians to expiate that breach of faith, in order that the divine vengeance might fall upon its author rather than upon Rome. Cato was Caesar's bitter political and personal enemy, but still Caesar's cruelty and perfidy in this transaction can be justified only on the ground of absolute necessity. To secure the Roman power, he must destroy these Germans, in order to establish the Rhine as the Gallic frontier and deter others from crossing.
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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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