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222.18. Viridomaro, etc.: see 213 13-17. These young Haeduan nobles had decided to desert Caesar, and so, as soon as they reached the frontier of their country, on the east side of the Allier, they invented an excuse for leaving him. 222.21.

perfidiamhabebat: see note on coactum habebat, 13 4. 222.25.

discedentibus (dat.), as they were setting out. 222.26.

quos et quam humilis, in what a state (lit. whomand how humbled; shortly before Caesar's arrival in Gaul the Sequani with the Germans as their allies had conquered the Haedui and imposed heavy conditions on them. See Bk. i. ch. 31. 223.6.

mandatis: this word implies that what he has just said to them is to be repeated to their countrymen at home.


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