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§ 7. milibvs . . . continehantur. If the reader will ponder these
words, he will see that they can only mean that none of the
camps was more than 100 miles from any other. If Caesar
really wrote C, he made a mistake, for it is certain that
Atuatuca, the camp of Sabinus and Cotta (see the note on § 4),
was much more than 100 miles from Samarobriva (Amiens),
where one of the legions encamped. See ch. 46-7 and C. G.,
pp. 371-3..
§ 8. munitaque hiberna. Permanent camps, intended to be
occupied throughout the winter, were of course fortified more
elaborately than the temporary camps which were constructed
at the end of each day's march (C. G., pp. 586-7).
26, ^ 1. cuitis maiores . . . obtinuerant. Evidently the last of
Tasgetms's ancestors had either been dethroned or succeeded
by an oligarchical government. Such revolutions (see p. xlii)
were common in Gaul in the centuiy that preceded the arrival
of Caesar.
§ 3. inimiei. Do not forget the distinction between this word
and hostes.
palam . . . auctonbus may be translated by ' with the avowed
sanction of many of the citizens '.
auctoribus. Remember that auctor does not always mean
'author' or '-originator'. Sometimes it is equivalent to qui
probat aliquid.
26, § 2. Jines here, as also in 46, § 4 and 54, § 2, evidently
means ' frontier '.
