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facultas quietis dabatur nee Cicero ipse, etsi tenuissima erat valetudine, nocturne tempore ad quietem utebatur,
priusquam mllitum vocibus sibi parcere coactus est. Turn duces Nerviorum, qul aliquam causam amlcitiae 5
cum Cicerone
habebant, colloqul sese velle nuntiaverunt.
Facta potestate, eadem commemorant, quae paulo ante Ambiorfx cum Sabino egerat. Addunt etiam de Sablnl morte, et conformant se nihil recusare nisi hiberna, atque
hanc inveterascere consuetudinem nolle; quam ob rem 10
Romanls
cumque
incolumibus ex castrls discedere et quas-
licere
in partes velint sine timore proficlscl.
LESSON no Heroic Defense of their
At
Camp
Cicero, qul iniussu Caesaris castra non esse consuetudinem
movere nolebat,
popull RomanI ullam accipere ab hoste armato condicionem si ab armls Gallis respondit
1
5
discedere atque legates ad Caesarem mittere vellent, sperare se eos, quae petlssent, impetraturos. 1.
quietis:
-etis,
tenuis,
here, poor. valetudine cf. p.
slight
no,
1.
9.
abl.
phrase expresses quality or characteristic cf. the similar use of the genitive.
4.
causam
6.
potestate:
commemorant
i.e.
ground.
i.e.
i.e.
facultate.
dicunt.
9.
p.,
-is, -e,
2.
The
quies,
tenuissima
rest.
animated narration, the pres. indie. is often thus used for the
.
.
.
consuetudinem:
inveterascere
winter.
rasco, 3, -veteravi, 10.
incolumibus
invete-
become fixed.
pred. dat.
quascumque quicumque, quaecumque, quodcumque, whatsoever.
14.
In
hanc
the practice of quartering a division of the army upon them for the i.e.
ullam:
modifier
of con-
dicionem. 15. 16.
legates: as on p. 48. 1. 9. i.e. ea quae, lit. the
quae:
treated (in his dealings) with Sa-
the conthings which ; freely, i.e. cessions which. petlssent petivissent cf. also the note on
binus.
exspectassent, p. 104,
perfect. 7.
cum Sabino
egerat
had
1.
18.
