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130.1. supra: i.e. 129 1-3. 130.3.

servabat, excedebat, etc.: note the imperfects, expressing customary and repeated action, he used to: cf. 1218. 130.4.

locis, regionibus: loc. abl.—locisque impeditis ac silvestribus: from this description we must infer that the British chariots were very narrow, to pass through the forest roads, and had high wheels, to go easily over rough ground. 130.7.

cumeiecerat: a general condition ; see note on cum, 84 22. Other instances of general conditions occur 103 24, 109 15, 110 3. 130.9.

emittebat, confligebat, prohibebat: the subj. is Cassivellaunus. 130.10.

hocprohibebat, by fear of this kept them [sc. eos] from roving too widely. 130.11.

relinquebatur ut, the consequence was that. 130.12.

discedi: impersonal. 130.13.

tantumquantum: correlatives; see vocab. 130.14.

noceretur: impers., governs the dat. hostibus; cf. note on 56 24.


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