[*] 124.15. revocari: i.e. those who were in advance and out of sight.—resistere, to halt: i.e. those who were near. [*] 124.17. coram perspicit: i.e. after a careful and thorough personal examination. Caesar did not leave important duties of this sort to subordinates. — sic ut, etc.: i.e. he sees that the account of the disaster is true to the extent that, etc.; ut and similar words often have a limiting meaning; cf. tantum, meaning only so much. [*] 124.19. fabros deligit: a certain number of carpenters （fabri lignarii） was attached to the engineer corps of the army, but Caesar seems to have had no regular engineer corps, except that a praefectus fabrum was on his staff. See chapter on military affairs, I. 4. [*] 124.20. legionibus: abl. of means. [*] 124.26. easdem quas, the same as; see 122 27. [*] 124.27. eodem （cf. note on 120 8）, i.e. to the British defences on the Stour. [*] 125.4. a mari: probably from Caesar's place of landing. The distance is reckoned, not in a straight line, but by the roads, as the army marched. [*] 125.5. huic, etc.: "The brave and cautious prince Cassivellaunus （Caswallon）, who ruled in what is now Middlesex and the surrounding district, — formerly the terror of the Celts to the south of the Thames, but now the protector and champion of the whole nation " （Mommsen）. — huic … cum reliquis civitatibus … intercesserant, had occurred between him and the other states; note the idiomatic construction.
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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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