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140.22. cumexcesserat, as often as, etc., equivalent to a general condition; cf. note on l. 15 above§ 518. b (309. c); B. 288. 3; G. 584; H. 601. 4 (521. ii. 1), with last example). 140.24.

eam partem, etc.: when the soldiers from one side of the orbis made a sally, that side, of course, had no defenders. 140.27.

proximi, etc.: only those immediately opposite the sally had fled, and so the party on its return was attacked at once by the enemy remaining on both flanks and also by the late fugitives. 141.1.

vellent: not contrary to fact, but a future condition thrown into the past; see § 516. f (307. f); H-B. 580. b. 141.4.

resistebant, they kept on fighting. Note the force of the tense. 141.6.

esset: characteristic subjv. 141.7.

Balventio: connect with femur; dat. of reference where we might have expected a gen. of possession; but the Latin is especially fond of this construction.—qui . . duxerat: as he had been chief centurion the year before, we infer that he was now serving in the corps of veterans called evocati. See chapter on military affairs, IV. a.


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