[*] 145.5. hac spe: i.e. of betraying Cicero as they had betrayed Sabinus. —fossa pedum quindecim: a ditch 15 ft. wide would be 11 ft. deep. [*] 145.8. ab his: i.e. the captives. — nullā … copiā = having no supply, etc. （a sort of abl. abs.）. "They were not yet used, like the Romans, to fight with the spade." [*] 145.10. manibus sagulisque … exhaurire, to dig out with their hands and [carry] in their cloaks. A kind of zeugma, 640 (385); B. 374. 2. a; G. 690; H. 751. 2. N (636. ii. 1); H-B. 631. 7; but, as usual in such cases, the meaning of the verb really covers the thought by implication. [*] 145.13. XV: probably an error, as a circuit of fifteen miles seems out of the question; perhaps pedum, or else v, instead of xv. [*] 145.14. falcīs, hooks; see note on 84 22. —testudines: wooden galleries or sheds, to protect the undermining （see Figs. 33, 127）.
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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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