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181.25. hic: i.e. in the open field. 181.26.

modoexspectant: the Roman discipline was so perfect that, in general, every man knew just what to do in any emergency (as in the fight with the Nervii, Bk. ii. ch. 21); but these new levies (see 176 24-27) were helpless till the exact order had been given, even the boldest of them (nemo est tam fortis, etc.). 182.2.

legiones: those of Caesar and his legati; see ch. 33. 182.4.

paucitate: i.e. five cohorts and the 300 convalescent veterans.


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