[*] 214.21. [noctis]: if this word is authentic, it must refer to the early part of the night, for Caesar marches back to his camp, a distance of twenty-five miles, before sunrise. [*] 214.26. quibus isdem: dat. of apparent agent after permanendum esset. The thought is that the soldiers were so few that the same men had to do all the fighting and could not be relieved. [*] 214.29. tormenta: see chapter on military affairs, I. 5.—discessu eorum: at the suspension of their attack when night came on; his messengers had apparently set out about midnight. [*] 215.1. obstruere, etc.: these pres. infinitives show that his preparations were still going on.—pluteos vallo addere: to make a defence behind which the soldiers could stand while manning the wall. [*] 215.4. ante ortum solis, etc.: Caesar left his camp a little after midnight, marched twenty-five miles, gave his soldiers a rest of three hours, and marched back twenty-five miles, reaching camp before sunrise, having been away but little more than twenty-four hours; truly a remarkable display of energy.
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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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