[*] 112.20. At Caesar: emphatic transition to Caesar from what the soldiers feared and the Britons planned; cf. 68 8. [*] 112.21. ex eventu navium, from what had befallen the ships.—ex eo quod, from the fact that. [*] 112.22. suspicabatur, began to suspect. [*] 112.24. quae … naves, earum, etc., the timber and the bronze of those ships which, etc. （§ 307. b (200. b); G. 616; H. 399. 5 (445. 9); H-B. 284. 6）. [*] 112.25. aere: the Romans used the word aes both for copper and bronze. These metals were more common than iron in the Roman ships, as they do not rust. They were employed to sheathe the rostrum and to make the spikes that held the timbers together.
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| Figure 124. Gallic coin. Reverse: Warrior armed with spear and shield, and holding a Gallic trumpet (carnyx). standing in a two-wheeled chariot, drawn by two galloping horses. L[ucius] LIC[inius] CN[aeus] DOM[itius]. |
