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13.2. equitatum. Who made up the cavalry? See chapter on military affairs, I. 2. 13.4.

coactum habebat, lit. had collected: more strictly, held （had in hand） after being collected.: § 497. b (292. c); B. 337. 7; G. 238; H. 431. 3 (388. 1. N.); H-B. 605. 5 — videant: subjv. of purpose. 13.5.

faciant: subjv. of ind. quest., quas being interrog. — cupidius, too eagerly （§ 291. a (93. a); B. 240. 1; G. 297. 2; H. 498 (444. 1); H-B. 241. 2）. — novissimum agmen, the rear; agmen is the army in line of march （ago）, and its newest part is that which comes along last. See chapter on military affairs, VI. 13.6.

alieno loco, on unfavorable ground; so suo would be favorable （cf. "one's own ground"）. For construction, see § 429 (258. f. 1); B. 228. 1. b;G. 385. N. 1; H. 485. 1 (425. ii. 2); H-B. 436. 13.8.

equitibus: abl. of means. 13.10.

novissimo agmine （loc. abl.）, at their rear. — proelio: abl. of manner or means. 13.12.

satis habebat, held it sufficient. — hostem … prohibere: in a kind of pred. agreement with satis, as object of habebat. — rapinis: § 400 (243); B. 214. 2; G. 390. 2; H. 462 (414. 1); H-B. 408. 2. 13.13.

ita … uti, in such a way that （correlative）. — dies: cf. with diebus, 11 8, and note the difference between the acc. and the abl. of time. 13.15.

quinis aut senis: distributives, implying that this was the constant or average daily distance between the two armies. They apparently marched along the Saône, in the direction of Chalon. Their exact route from the Saône towards Autun is uncertain. The country here is very irregular and broken; so that it was impossible for Caesar to get any advantage by a rapid march or by an attack on the Helvetian rear. He consequently followed them, watching his chance. — milibus: § 406 (247); B. 217; G. 296; H. 471 (417); H-B. 416. d.


Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.

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