[*] 196.24. quae … habebat: i. e. the neck of the peninsula on which the town was situated （196 8 ff.）. [*] 196.25. intermissa, left free.—[a]: omit. [*] 196.26. aggerem, etc.: see chapter on military affairs, VIII. Between the Yèvre and the Auron was a plateau, some 1200 to 1600 feet high, with rather steep banks.As this plateau approached the town, it narrowed to a ridge only about 400 feet wide, with the Auron on one side and a swampy brook, the Yévrette, on the other. From the Yévrette to the Yèvre extended a morass. At a distance of about 300 feet from the city wall the ridge was intersected by a sudden depression like a trench, perhaps 50 feet deep （see plan, Fig. 90）. Caesar pitched his camp on the plateau just back of the ridge, a little over half a mile from Avaricum. Along the ridge, right across the intersecting ravine, he built the agger. [*] 196.29. alteri: the Haedui, already wavering in their allegiance; alteri: the Boii, a fragment of the defeated Helvetians （Bk. i. ch. 28）. [*] 197.8. ab eis: the source of vox, not the agent of audita. Notice again in this passage the invincible endurance of these soldiers. [*] 197.14. ignominiae loco, in the place of （i.e. as） a disgrace. [*] 197.16. Cenabi: locative. [*] 197.17. parentarent = ut parentarent, the natural construction. As one might say irregularly in English 'It is better to suffer anything than not avenge our comrades,' omitting 'to.'
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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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