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206.14. consolatus cohortatusque: the fall of Avaricum must have been a crushing blow to Vercingetorix, but he meets the disaster with a magnificent courage. 206.18.

errare si qui = that those were mistaken who, etc. 206.19.

sibi numquam placuisse: see 196 3-13. 206.23.

quaedissentirent: i.e. the states that had not yet joined the rebellion. 206.27.

effectum habere: see notes on 13 4, 40 20, 51 8. 206.28.

impetrari, etc.: i.e. he had a right to ask them to proceed to fortify, etc.; notice the modesty of these words, appropriate to the great disaster just suffered.


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