[*] 157.1. multis de causis: viz. the profitless expedition to Britain, the desertion of Dumnorix, the loss of Cotta and Sabinus, and the sudden revolt led by Indutiomarus （see Bk. iv. chs. 55-58）. [*] 157.2. per Silanum: the regular construction of the means when it is a person; cf. 57 3 and note. [*] 157.3. delectum: i.e in Italy. [*] 157.4. proconsule: Pompey had been consul B.C. 55. He was now nominally proconsul of Spain, with six legions; but he remained in Italy, ruling his province through legati.—ad urbem （not in urbe）: as long as he was in military command （cum imperio）, he could not enter the city. [*] 157.5. rei publicae causā: this business was the superintending of the corn supply （cura annonae）.—quos … rogavisset, whom he had enlisted when consul from Cisalpine Gaul; the verb rogare is used of a commander who exacts an oath of allegiance from his men; hence sacramento rogare means to enlist; quos: sc. the antecedent eos as obj. of iuberet and subj. of convenire and proficisci.—Cisalpina Gallia: this was Caesar's own province. But Pompey and Crassus had received authority to raise troops where they pleased, and in whatever number. [*] 157.7. iuberet: subjv. of purpose, with ut omitted, following petit cf. 108 1.—magni: cf. 52 11 and note.—etiam, etc.: i.e. not merely for this campaign, but for the Roman prestige in future. [*] 157.8. opinionem Galliae: subj. gen. [*] 158.2. augeri: does not refer to detrimentum, but to Caesar's force （implied）. This linking of different ideas with a word that properly belong only to one is called zeugma. [*] 158.3. quod: i.e. the loan of the legion.—amicitiae: Casar and Pompey were still openly friends, though by the recent death of Julia, Caesar's daughter and Pompey's wife, as well as by the death of Crassus, the political coalition which united them had been dissolved, and an open rupture soon followed. The legion now forwarded to Caesar was demanded back two or three years later. [*] 158.5. constitutis et adductis: i.e. two levied and one borrowed. [*] 158.6. duplicato: fifteen cohorts had been lost under Sabinus （Bk. v. chs. 26-37）. The three legions now received had of course thirty cohorts. The new legions were known as I, III, and XIV, the last taking the place of the legion and a half that had been lost under Sabinus at Aduatuca. Caesar now led ten legions.
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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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