J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge, M. Grant Daniell, Commentary on Caesar's Gallic War, BOOK FIFTH.—B.C. 54., Chapter 13

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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.

BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.

BOOK FOURTH. — B.C. 55.

BOOK FIFTH.—B.C. 54.

BOOK VI. BOOK SIXTH.—B.C. 53.

BOOK SEVENTH.—B.C. 52.

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[*] 126.17. ad Hispaniam, etc. i.e. he places Spain west of Britain on the same side as Ireland. For this crude geography, cf. Tacitus （Agric. 34）, who says that Ireland is between Britain and Spain. Caesar conceives Britain as lying somewhat in the accompanying form. [*] 126.20.

atque, as （§ 324. c (156. a); B. 341. 1. c; G. 643; H. 657. 1. N. (554. 1. 2. N.); H-B. 307. 2. a.）; i.e. the distance from Ireland to Britain is the same as that from Britain to Gaul.

Figure 125a.

[*] 126.21.

Mona: the Isle of Man, or confounded with it; but Tacitus evidently gives this name to Anglesea. [*] 126.25.

ex aqua mensuris: the clepsydra, or water-clock, measured time by the dropping of fixed measures of water through a small pipe or aperture something like a sand-glass. — breviores naturally, as this was in the summer. [*] 127.1.

hoc: sc. latus.

Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.

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