[*] 94.1. ea quae, etc.: mark the emphasis as shown by the order and compare the opening of Bk. iii and note. — Pompeio, Crasso: i.e. the year B.C. 55. Observe that the usual way of fixing a year is by naming the consuls for that year. The coalition between Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus, sometimes called the First Triumvirate, had been formed five years before. In carrying out the scheme, Caesar held the government of Gaul, while the others took into their own hands the whole control of affairs at home （see Introd., "Life of Caesar"）. [*] 94.2. Usipetes, Tencteri: beyond the Rhine, a little below Cologne. [*] 94.4. quo: adv. = in quod. [*] 94.5. quod … prohibebantur: Caesar states this reason as his own, therefore the indic. — Suevis: this people （the modern Swabians） occupied the greater part of central Germany, and was made up of several independent tribes. [*] 94.6. premebantur, prohibebantur: the imperfects here express that which was still going on, they were being hard pressed, etc. [*] 94.8. centum pagos （see 10 12）: there is probably some confusion here with the ancient German institution of the Hundred, a division of the population giving its name to a district of territory. Each hundred seems to have sent 1000 men （singula milia） to the army. The term early lost its numerical value, and became a mere local designation. [*] 94.9. bellandi causā: gerund, expressing purpose with causā. Observe that causa in this use always follows its case ; cf. above causa transeundi, with a totally different meaning. [*] 94.11. hi … illi, the latter … the former. — anno post, the following year （§ 424. f (259. d); B. 357. 1; G. 403. N. 4; H. 488. 1 (430); cf. H-B. 424）. [*] 94.12. ratio, theory （theoretical knowledge）; usus, practice （knowledge derived from experience）. [*] 94.13. sed: i.e. they attended to agriculture systematically, but, etc.— privati … agri: i.e. the land was held in tribal communities. [*] 94.14. longius anno: i.e. the community had no fixed possessions, but was transferred yearly from one tract to another, its place being taken by another community. As is shown in Bk. vi. ch. 22, the community was composed of persons kindred by birth. The annual shifting of occupancy would prevent at once forming local attachments, building up large properties, and too rapidly exhausting the soil. [*] 94.15. frumento （abl. of means）, etc.: they were still in a half-nomadic state, though with some little advance in agriculture （cf. Bk. vi. ch. 22, and Tacitus, Ger. 27）.— maximam partem: adv. acc.; it is worth while to learn the few words that commonly occur in this construction; see § 390. c (240. a, b); B. 185. 1; G. 334. R. 2; H. 416. 2 (378. 2); cf. H-B. 388. [*] 94.17. quae res: cf. note on 30 19. [*] 95.1. quod … faciunt: this clause is a parenthesis: because, having been trained from childhood to no service or discipline, they do nothing whatever against their will, — a lively contrast of barbarous manners with the severity of Roman family and civil discipline. [*] 95.3. alit: the subj. is quae res. — homines [eos] efficit, makes [them] men, etc. [*] 95.4. eam: correl. with ut, introducing a clause of result. — locis （abl. abs., concessive） frigidissimis, even in their extreme climate. [*] 95.5. vestitūs: part. gen. with quicquam. — haberent, have; lavarentur, bathe （imperf. by sequence of tenses following adduxerunt: § 485. a (287. a); B. 268. 1; G. 511. R. 2; H. 546 (495. 1); H-B. 481）.
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