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77.19. quod = id quod: cf. 73 12. 77.20.

cognoscendi facultatem, opportunity of finding out. — sui conligendi, of collecting their wits: observe that sui is plural in meaning ; cf. sui recipiendi, line 3 above, and note. 77.23.

circumventos interficiunt, they surround and kill. — ex milibus: for part. gen. after parse. 77.27.

armis: abl. of separation. 77.28.

exutis: agreeing with copiis§ 364 (225. d); B. 187. i. a; G. 348; H. 462 (414. 1); H-B. 408. 3. ftn. 2), i.e. in their flight they threw their arms away. Of course the Romans did not catch them and strip off their arms. 77.29.

fortunam temptare: cf. English 'to tempt Providence.' — alio consilioaliis rebus videbat, remembered that he had come with one design, and saw that he had met a different state of things.


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