[*] 210.24. quintis castris, at the fifth encampment, or end of the fifth day's march. [*] 210.26. situ: see plan, Fig. 97. [*] 210.27. oppugnatione, taking （it） by storm, without a formal siege.— de obsessione, etc.: i.e. he concluded not to invest it regularly until supplies had been provided. [*] 211.5. qua despici poterat, where a view could be had from above. [*] 211.8. seu quid, etc., in case any communication or orders should seem necessary. [*] 211.10. quid: with animi ac virtutis （part. gen.）. [*] 211.12. collis: the so-called Roche Blanche （White Rock）, at whose foot flows the only sufficient stream of water （see plan, Fig. 97）. Caesar's larger camp, it will be observed, lay toward the southeast of the town, and the smaller towards the south; while the forces of the Gauls lay on the gentler southern slopes of the hill （measuring nearly a mile from east to west, and a third as much from north to south） on which the town was built （see ch. 46）. [*] 211.13. quem si, etc.: fut. condition, indir. disc. [*] 211.14. et … et: correlatives. [*] 211.16. tamen: opposed to the whole description, not to the last part merely. [*] 211.17. posset: see note on 158 24. The verb is here impersonal.
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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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