[*] 33.3. tridui: gen. of measure. — viam: § 390 (238); B. 176. 4. a; G. 333. 2; H. 409. 2 (371. ii. N); H-B. 396. 1. [*] 33.4. occupandum: gerundive agreeing with Vesontionem. — Vesontionem: the modern Besançon, about ninety miles E.N.E. of the former battleground. There are many Roman remains here. [*] 33.5. quod relates to Vesontionem, but agrees in gender with oppidum: § 306 (199); B. 250. 3; G. 614. 3. b; H. 396. 2 (445. 4); H-B. 326. 1 [*] 33.6. finibus: the country which he had taken from the Sequani （Upper Alsace）. — processisse, had advanced. The bracketed words are probably authentic, and at any rate may be translated. — ne, following praecavendum （§ 558. b (331. e. 2); B. 295. 3; G. 548; H. 568 (497. ii); H-B. 502. 3. b）. [*] 33.10. ducendum: cf. occupandum above, and note. [*] 33.11. Dubis: the modern Doubs. This name is said to mean "black river." — ut, as it were. [*] 33.12. spatium: object of continet. [*] 33.13. pedum: pred. gen. after est; for construction with amplius, see § 407. c (247. c); B. 217. 3; G. 296. R. 4; H. 471. 4 (417. N. 2); H-B. 416. d — sexcentorum: the real distance is about 1600 feet, but in other respects the present site exactly corresponds to Caesar's words. See view, Fig. 18. — qua, where. [*] 33.14. altitudine: abl. of quality or description. — radices: object, and ripae subject of contingant. [*] 33.15. hunc [mortem], etc., this an encompassing wall makes into a fortress. [*] 33.17. oppido: the town must be regarded as having occupied the lower ground towards the bend in the river.
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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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