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116.12. siccitatīs: see § 100. c (75. c); B. 55. 4. c; G. 204. 5; H. 138. 2 (130. 2); H-B. 240. 5. b; the tempestates of ch. 34 were apparently merely gusty weather without rain. 116.13.

reciperent: a purpose clause.—superiore anno: see Bk. iii. ch. 28. 116.22.

supplicatio: cf. end of Bk. ii. The crossing of the Rhine strongly impressed the minds of the Romans at home, and so, too, the passage into Britain, though the last was in fact a failure. But, though Caesar had added nothing to Roman power, he had opened a new world to Roman ambition.


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