[*] 201.14. genus: i. e. the Gauls. [*] 201.15. atque … aptissimum: cf. Bk. iv. ch. 5; atque connects the descriptive gen. summae sollertiae and the descriptive adj. aptissimum. [*] 201.16. laqueis, etc.: see Fig. 127. [*] 201.17. cum destinaverant, … reducebant: a general condition expressing repeated action in past time; cf. 130 7. [*] 201.19. ferrariae: so of the copper mines of the Aquitani; see 89 11-18. [*] 201.25. cotidianus agger: i.e, the daily increase in the height of the agger.—commissis malis, by splicing the upright timbers; these were the high corner beams of the towers, by which they were raised in successive stages, so that each increase in the height of the Roman works was met by a corresponding increase in the height of the defences. The towers on the walls were probably connected by covered galleries, one for each story. [*] 201.26. apertos cuniculos … morabantur, etc.: this refers to the obstructions put by the Gauls in the way of the open passage ways which ran through the agger, and which the soldiers used in carrying material for its advance and completion; morabantur has the force of blocked or obstructed. See Figs. 92, 93, 120, and chapter on military affairs, VIII.
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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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