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141.24. quostribunos militum = eos tribunos militium quos. 141.26.

Ambiorigem: cf. 41 10 and note. 142.1.

condicionibus: i.e. of surrender. 142.8.

aquilam: he thus saved the standard from disgrace, — a characteristic and truly heroic act. 142.11.

se interficiunt: a death worthy of Roman soldiers.

This was the most serious loss that Caesar sustained during the Gallic war. There must have been at least 5000 men in the ill-fated command of Cotta and Sabinus. From this time on Caesar makes it his duty to avenge his massacred legion, and he carries on a relentless warfare against the Eburones and Ambiorix, until the former are exterminated and the latter becomes a hunted fugitive.


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