[*] 111.10. eadem nocte: this was probably the night of August 30; the moon was then full at 3 A.M. [*] 111.11. aestus maximos, very high tides. The ocean tides, rising here between twenty and thirty feet, were a strange phenomenon to those who had known only the tideless waters of the Mediterranean. One is at a loss to understand why the Romans had not learned more about the tides in the war with the Veneti. [*] 111.13. navīs: obj. of compleverat.—[quibus, etc.]: an unnecessary explanation, and may be omitted. [*] 111.15. adflictabat （intensive）, dashed about. [*] 111.16. facultas, etc.: i.e. chance to manage their own ships or help their companions. [*] 112.1. funibus … amissis, etc., from the loss of, etc. [*] 112.2. id quod: see § 307. d (200. e); B. 247. 1. b; G. 614. R. 2; H. 399. 6 (445. 7); H-B. 325. a. N. 2. [*] 112.4. quibus = ut eis: result. [*] 112.5. quod … constabat, because it was understood: the subj. is oportere, of which the subj. is hiemari, that it was best to winter in Gaul. [*] 112.7. provisum: see note on 56 16.
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Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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