[*] 234.26. pedum viginti: i.e. in breadth. [*] 234.27. directis, vertical, the bottom （solum） being as broad as the top. The ditch was usually dug with sloping sides; the object here was （as it was probably shallow） to make it harder to cross. This was the interior line of defence against the town.—sŏlum: notice the quantity of the first syllable. [*] 235.2. [id] may be omitted.—hoc consilio, with this design, followed by the app. clauses of purpose, ne … possent. [*] 235.3. quoniam … ne, that, since, etc., not, etc.—esset complexus and cingeretur are subjv. because integral parts of his purpose, ne … possent. [*] 235.4. nec = et non, as usual.—totum opus, the entire work, eleven miles in extent, according to 233 11. [*] 235.6. operi: take with destinatos. [*] 235.8. eadem altitudine, of equal depth.—quarum interiorem: i.e. the one nearer the town.—campestribus … locis: loc. abl. describing the situation. [*] 235.10. aggerem: here not the technical approach used in a siege, but a bank of earth serving as a rampart, on top of which was placed the vallum of stakes, twelve feet in height. [*] 235.11. loricam, pinnas: see Bk. v. ch. 40. These were to raise higher the defence of the vallum.—cervis: stumps with roots, or trunks with branches, projecting like stags' horns.—ad commissuras, at the joining, i.e. the place where these plutei were fixed in the agger, which would be at their lowest part. [*] 235.12. pluteorum: the lorica was really a series of plutei, arranged side by side on a wall and bound together. [*] 235.13. turris: if these were ten feet wide at the base, there must have been at least 400.—quae … distarent: not which were distant （this would be indic.）, but so placed as to be, etc., hence subjv.
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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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