[*] 231.4. equites: see 229 25. [*] 231.6. per … finīs: bearing from near Agedincum （where he had been joined by Labienus, ch. 62） toward the east, and so leaving the hostile Haedui to the south. This movement, checked by the attack of Vercingetorix, explains how the crisis of the campaign came to be the siege and capture of Alesia （see map, Fig. 88）. [*] 231.13. parum profici, that little advantage was gained.—reversuros [esse]: i.e. Romanos. [*] 231.15. adoriantur: for adoriamur in dir. disc., let us charge upon them.—si pedites, etc., the attack was to be made on the baggage train, which was guarded by cavalry. Vercingetorix knew Caesar's weakness in this arm, and did not suspect the German reinforcement. If the infantry stopped to assist the cavalry （suis） the march would be delayed. [*] 231.16. magis futurum, is more likely. [*] 231.18. dignitate, etc.: i.e. the dishonor of retreat with loss of baggage.—nam de equitibus, etc.: i.e. even the Gauls whom he was addressing could not suppose that the Roman cavalry would wish an engagement. [*] 231.19. quin … audeat follows ne … dubitare: i.e. even they themselves would admit that, etc. [*] 231.20. id quo … animo, that they （i.e. the Gauls） may do so （i.e. attack the Romans） with greater courage. [*] 231.21. pro castris, in front of the camp, by way of defiance, to support by a demonstration the attack of the cavalry. [*] 231.23. confirmari oportere, that they ought to bind themselves.
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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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