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The reference is to the luxurious and vicious pleasures of the Romans, which enervated the Britons, cf. 21, at close, where the idea is brought out more fully. Cum lasciviret. Cum==since. Hence the subj. Precario. Cf. note, G. 44. Mox, cf. note 4. Velut pacti implies a tacit compact. It was understood between them, that the army were to enjoy their liberty; the general, his life.
Didicere jam barbari quoque ignoscere vitiis blandientibus: et interventus civilium armorum praebuit justam segnitiae excusationem: sed discordia laboratum, cum assuetus expeditionibus miles otio lasciviret. Trebellius fuga ac latebris vitata exercitus ira, indecorus atque humilis, precario mox praefuit: ac velut pacti, exercitus licentiam, dux salutem; et seditio sine sanguina stetit.
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