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157.5.

rei publicae causā: this business was the superintending of the corn supply (cura annonae).—quosrogavisset, whom he had enlisted when consul from Cisalpine Gaul; the verb rogare is used of a commander who exacts an oath of allegiance from his men; hence sacramento rogare means to enlist; quos: sc. the antecedent eos as obj. of iuberet and subj. of convenire and proficisci.—Cisalpina Gallia: this was Caesar's own province. But Pompey and Crassus had received authority to raise troops where they pleased, and in whatever number.


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