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183.16. constitisse, etc., had now gained a position. 183.17.

praeda: see 179 26. 183.20.

fidem non faceret, could not make them believe. 183.22.

alienata mente, beside themselves with terror.—deletisrecepisse: after dicerent. 183.23.

neque: the negative belonging with oppugnaturos fuisse is, as often in Latin, combined with the general connective of the sentence.—incolumi exercitu (abl. abs. denoting condition), in case the army were safe. 183.24.

oppugnaturos fuisse: the regular form in indir. disc. for oppugnavissent a contrary-to-fact apodosis.

"Brave as they were, the Roman soldiers seem to have been curiously liable to panics of this kind. The faith with which they relied upon their general avenged itself through the completeness with which they were accustomed to depend upon him. He returned on the day which he had fixed, and not unnaturally was displeased at the disregard of his orders. He did not, or does not in his Commentaries, professedly blame Cicero. But the Ciceros perhaps resented the loss of confidence which one of them had brought upon himself. Quintus Cicero cooled in his zeal, and afterwards amused the leisure of his winter quarters with composing worthless dramas."—Froude's "Caesar."


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