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52.9.

obsides (pred. appos.), as hostages: if the chiefs should break their faith, these boys would probably be sold as slaves; cf. also note on 8 11. — quae omnia, and all this. Latin very frequently connects clauses by a relative where our idiom prefers a conj. with a demonstrative (§ 308. f (201. e); B. 251. 6; G. 610. R. 1; H. 510 (453); H-B. 284. 8).


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