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9.18.

debuerint: if this were stated not as a result but independently, the form would be perf. indic., implying that the thing had happened contrary to what ought to be. According to the Latin idiom, the same tense is retained in such cases, contrary to the sequence of tenses. See § 485. c. N. 2 (287. c. N.); B. 268. 6; G. 513; H. 550 (495. VI); H-B. 478. The Eng. idiom is that our lands, etc., ought not to have been, etc., putting the past idea into the infin. (§ 486. a (288. a); B. 270. 2; H. 618. 2 (537. 1); H-B. 582. 3.a ftn. 2). — Haedui Ambarri, the Haedui near the Arar (or Saône), occupying the angle between that river and the Rhone. They were evidently closely akin to the Haedui and were their allies.


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