[*] 114.5. ex essedis: these chariots held six men （essedarii） wach besides the driver （auriga）, and were drawn by two horses. [*] 114.6. terrore equorum: subj. gen., the terror that the horses arouse. [*] 114.8. cum se … insinuaverunt, when they have worked their way between; the protasis of a general condition, ex essedis … proeliantur, being the apodosis ; cf. 103 24. The perf. indict with cum is here used as a protasis because a repeated action is spoken of.—equitum, the cavalry of the Britons. When the essedarii had dismounted, the British line was composed of alternate bodies of horse and foot. [*] 114.10. illi: i.e. the fighting men spoken of above. [*] 114.11. expeditum … receptum, a ready retreat. [*] 114.13. praestant, exhibit. Caesar was much struck with the efficiency of the German and British horse （see ch. 12）, and later made it the basis of important changes in the Roman army. The ordinary cavalry was never able to cope with infantry; cf. Caesar's stratagem in 38 1. [*] 114.14. uti … consuerint: clause of result following efficiunt.—declivi ac praecipiti loco, a steep downward slope. [*] 114.15. incitatos equos sustinere, to check their horses in fall gallop （comp. infin. after consuerint）.—brevi, within a short space. [*] 114.16. iugo: made of straight or curved wood, resting on the necks of the horses and holding up the pole of the chariot.
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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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