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131.2. Cenimagni, etc.: these were petty populations of the vicinity. 131.4.

oppidum Cassivellauni: thought to be the modern St. Albans. 131.6.

oppidum, etc.: the Britons, like the Germans, did not live in towns but used these strongholds simply for defence against attack. 131.7.

cum, whenever, another general condition; cf. 130 7 and note. The preceding case refers to repeated action in past time, this to the present of a general truth. Notice the difference between these cases and the regular descriptive cum in narration. 131.9.

consuerunt: what tense in translation? 131.14.

multi: i.e. the people, not the cattle.


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