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172.6. cumsuperarent: a clause of characteristic, such that, etc.; see § 535. a. N. 3 (322. R.); G. 631. 2; H. 591. 4 (503. 1. N. 2); H-B. 521. 1. 172.7.

superarent, inferrent, mitterent: asyndeton, i.e. omission of connectives. 172.10.

Hercyniam silvam: the great wooded range extending from the Black Forest to the Bohemian Highlands.—Graecis: i.e. other Greeks, as Eratosthenes was a Greek, though not of Greece proper. 172.11.

Volcae Tectosages, etc.: occupying the southern part of Gaul, about Narbonne or Toulouse. A portion only had migrated to Germany; or, perhaps, had stayed behind from an early Celtic migration westward. 172.16.

Gallis: indir. obj. of largitur, multa being the dir. obj.


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