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dum, neque ex hibernis iniussu Caesaris discedendum iudicum enim castra munitissima essent, credebant se Germams facile resistere posse, donee Caesar cum legionibus subsidio veniret. Sabinus autem, veritus ne Gall! cum sGermanls se coniungerent, statim discedendum censuit sciebat enim Germanls magno dolor! fuisse victorias supecabant
Romanorum, neque arbitrabatur Gallos, qui tot contumelias a Romanis acceperant, se cum hoste quovis
riores
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coniungere dubitaturos. Oratione in utramque partem habita, cum Cotta sententiae collegae sul acriter resisteret, Sabinus postremo Iratus " ut vobls videtur; "Fiat," inquit, mortis perlculo magnopere terrear."
LESSON
ego non
104
The Advice of the Enemy
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sum, qui
is
Taken
is
Quibus verbis commoti, omnes statim e consilio surrexerunt, legatosque vehementer hortati sunt ne sua pertinacia rem in summum periculum deducerent: neque enim ullum (military) tribunes.
Of these there
were
six for each legion; in they stood next to the legion
mander.
centuriones
rank
com-
centurions
(subordinate officers, ranking from captain down). 3. legionibus troops. 6. dolori: dat. of service.
superiores 8.
as
on
1.
p. 79,
RSmanorum. 10.
in
pro and
hoste: sc.
ret
quSvis: from quivis.
utramque partem con.
translate
cum by a
.
.
.
freely, resiste-
partic. phrase.
for
Ger-
cf.
syntax,
3.
collegae collega, -ae, M.,
brother
here,
lit.
officer
(namely, Sabinus). 12.
as
tur
cf.
eos 16.
se
1.
colleague
7.
a: at the hands of.
obj. of coniungere, 1.9.
sententiae:
mams, n.
in
fiat: let it be.
(it) .
.
seems
qui, p. 125,
.
rem
ut
best.
.
is 1.
with
.
vide:
8.
matters.
combination
.
... qui
neque
enim and
other postpositive words, neque usually replaces n5n. In the translation
of this
particular
clause,
combine the negative with ullum (
=
nullum)
.