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139.5. tum demum: implying, as always, 'not till then,' here with the further idea that he ought to have roused himself before.—providisset: a rel. clause of cause; see § 535. e (320. e); B. 283. 3; G. 633; H. 592 (517); H-B. 523. —trepidare: histor. infin.; for use, cf. note on flagitare, 13 18. 139.9.

cogitasset: cf. providisset, l. 5. 139.14.

quoque: from quisque. 139.15.

possent: the subj. is Cotta and Titurius. 139.16.

in orbem: see note on 116 1. A modern army would form a hollow square. The orbis also was hollow, having room within for the higher officers, the non-combatants, the wounded, etc. 140.5.

acciditut, etc. (cf. 132 8): this clause is divided into three parts with the verbs discederent, properaret, complerentur, the first two being connected by -quequaeque). 140.8.

fletu: not from cowardice. These men fought with splendid courage. It was their way of showing their feelings.


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    • A. A. Howard, Benj. L. D'Ooge, G. L. Kittredge, J. B. Greenough, Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, 535
    • Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, 633
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