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205.22. cuneatim, in a compact body; (lit. wedge-fashion) implying tactics like those of the Romans. 205.23.

si quaveniretur, if an attack should be made from any side; [contra] may be omitted; veniretur is impersonal. 205.25.

circumfundi (impers. pass.) = that men were pouring in. 205.27.

continenti impetu, without stopping. 206.1.

exitu: abl. of cause. 206.3.

quisquam: i.e. Romanorum.—Cenabensi caede: see ch. 3. 206.10.

[ut]: omit.—procul in via, etc., placing his friends and the chiefs of the states at intervals for some distance along the road, he took care that they [the fugitives] should be separated and conducted to their own people. 206.12.

quaepars = ad eam partemquae and refers to the persons implied by suos, and is explained by 198 7, where it is said that the Gallic forces were arranged generatim.


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