[*] 164.15. cum … venit: notice the difference between this and the cum in descriptive clauses （cf. 11 7, 49 1）. Here it means merely 'at the time when, etc.,' and there is no inner connection with the main clause. [*] 164.16. Sequani: these succeeded to the domination of the Arverni （see Bk. i. ch. 31） —hi, the latter. [*] 164.17. antiquitus: really only a little while before, as the Haedui had risen by favor of the Romans. [*] 164.18. clientelae, dependencies. these were the petty tribes which grouped themselves about one or the other of the great rival states. [*] 164.24. iurare: i.e. the Haedui. [*] 164.25. nihil … consili, no plans, part. gen.—et: connects cogerent and possiderent. [*] 164.27. Diviciacus: cf. 27 13. [*] 165.1. infecta re, without effecting his object. [*] 165.2. adventu Caesaris … dimiserant: this long Latin periodic sentence should in our idiom be rendered by several coordinate sentences （cf. note on 66 5）.—facta commutatione: i.e. by his friendship to the Haedui and the defeat of Ariovistus （Bk. i. chs. 31-53）. [*] 165.4. ei: subj. of videbant. [*] 165.6. reliquis rebus: abl. of specification. [*] 165.8. adaequare, were equal; i.e. to the Haedui. （The infin. clause quos adaequare is the subj. of intellegebatur, which is used impersonally.） [*] 165.9. gratia: abl. of specification. [*] 165.11. dĭcabant: distinguish from dīcebant. [*] 165.13. statu: loc. abl.
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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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