[*] 90.4. Vocatium, etc.: these were further west. [*] 90.7. quibus, within which. [*] 90.8. quoqueversus, in every direction （quoque, the adverb of place formed from the distributive quisque; versus, the adverb of direction usually connected with prepositions, as ad-versus）. It is often written quoquoversum. [*] 90.10. citerioris: i.e. from the standpoint of Rome; now northern Spain. — Hispaniae: these Iberian populations were allied to the Aquitani （Bk. i. ch. 1）. Spain had been subject to Rome for more than 150 years, but was always rather mutinous, and had made several attempts at independence, especially under Sertorius, who defied Rome for ten years, B. C. 82-72 （see note on 88 21）. It was also the last stronghold of Pompey's party in the civil war, till finally subdued at Munda, B. C. 45. — finitimae: pred. adj. agreeing with quae. [*] 90.15. consuetudine populi Romani: a custom which they had learned in the service with Sertorius. [*] 90.16. loca capere, etc.: i.e. to practice Roman tactics. [*] 90.18. suas … augeri, etc.: these infin. clauses are in app. with quod. — diduci, be stationed in various places, to keep track of the enemy and prevent being surrounded. [*] 90.22. decertaret: subjv. of result with quin after cunctandum [esse]; see § 558 (319. d); B. 283. 4; G. 555; H. 595. 2 (504); cf. H-B. 502. 3. b cf. 29 5, 50 9, 50 25.
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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
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BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.
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BOOK FIFTH.—B.C. 54.
BOOK VI. BOOK SIXTH.—B.C. 53.
BOOK SEVENTH.—B.C. 52.
Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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