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198.11.

propinquitatem: i.e. the armies were separated only by the swamp.—videret: the contrast is between the casual observer and the careful inspector (quiperspiceret).—prope, etc., on nearly equal terms; iniquitatem, unfair advantage, showing that their offering battle was inanis simulatio.


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