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104.14. diebus x quibus, within ten days from the time when. — coepta erat: pass. because used with the pass. infin.; cf. 53 6; see also l. 20 below. 104.15.

traducitur: the histor. pres., resumed from 102 21. 104.16.

Sugambrorum: these were a little to the northeast of the bridge. 104.21.

hortantibus eis, etc.: i.e. the few who had escaped the massacre of ch. 15, and had taken refuge across the Rhine. 104.23.

in solitudinem: notice that the Latin construction is that following verbs of motion, on account of the meaning of abdiderant; we say hid in, etc. 104.27.

pollicitus: this word implies a main clause in the infin:, se daturum, on which the conditional clause would depend. This clause does not appear, but the dependent clause remains in the subjv. according to the rule.


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