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COMMENTARIUS SEPTIMUS
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9. Quibus de rebus Caesar a Crasso certior factus, quod ipse aberat longius, naves interim longas aedificari in flumine Ligeri, quod influit in Oceanum, remiges ex provincia institui, nautas gubernatoresque comparari iubet.
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His rebus celeriter administratis ipse, cum primum per anni tempus potuit, ad exercitum contendit.
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Veneti reliquaeque item civitates cognito Caesaris adventu [certiores facti], simul quod quantum in se facinus admisissent intellegebant, [legatos, quod nomen ad omnes nationes sanctum inviolatumque semper fuisset, retentos ab se et in vincula coniectos,] pro magnitudine periculi bellum parare et maxime ea quae ad usum navium pertinent providere instituunt, hoc maiore spe quod multum natura loci confidebant.
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Pedestria esse itinera concisa aestuariis, navigationem impeditam propter inscientiam locorum paucitatemque portuum sciebant,
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neque nostros exercitus propter inopiam frumenti diutius apud se morari posse confidebant;
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ac iam ut omnia contra opinionem acciderent, tamen se plurimum navibus posse, [quam] Romanos neque ullam facultatem habere navium, neque eorum locorum ubi bellum gesturi essent vada, portus, insulas novisse;
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ac longe aliam esse navigationem in concluso mari atque in vastissimo atque apertissimo Oceano perspiciebant.
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His initis consiliis oppida muniunt,
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frumenta ex agris in oppida comportant, naves in Venetiam, ubi Caesarem primum bellum gesturum
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constabat, quam plurimas possunt cogunt. Socios sibi ad id bellum Osismos, Lexovios, Namnetes, Ambiliatos, Morinos, Diablintes, Menapios adsciscunt; auxilia ex Britannia, quae contra eas regiones posita est, arcessunt.
C. Julius Caesar. C. Iuli Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII A. Hirti Commentarius VII. T. Rice Holmes. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1914. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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- J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge, M. Grant Daniell, Commentary on Caesar's Gallic War, AG BG 5.5
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AMBILIA´TI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CONDIVICNUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), DIABLINTES
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), NAMNE´TES
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), VE´NETI
- Cross-references in notes to this page
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- Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, CONSTRUCTION OF CASES
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- Lewis & Short, Dĭā^blintes
- Lewis & Short, Lexobĭi
- Lewis & Short, Vĕnĕti
- Lewis & Short, ac-cĭdo
- Lewis & Short, ad-mitto
- Lewis & Short, aestŭārĭum
- Lewis & Short, ălĭus
- Lewis & Short, con-clūdo
- Lewis & Short, con-fīdo
- Lewis & Short, instĭtŭo
- Lewis & Short, jam
- Lewis & Short, nauta
- Lewis & Short, păro
- Lewis & Short, paucĭtas
- Lewis & Short, pĕdester
- Lewis & Short, prō-vĭdĕo
- Lewis & Short, ut
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