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The Gallic bank of the Rhine, which was the border of the Roman Empire, cf. G. passim. Quos indicium illustravit. Whom the account of so wonderful an adventure rendered illustrious. The rule would require the subj. See especially proximo anno, 34. Hence the propriety of commencing a new section here. The common editions begin it below: Igitur, etc. Plerique. Cf. note on it, 1. Fortium virorum.
They are deemed vices in the weaker. Chattis cessit: while to the Chatti, who were victorious, success was imputed for wisdom. The antithetic particle at the beginning of the clause is omitted. Cf. note, 4: minime. Fuissent. Subj. after cum signifying although. XXXVII. Sinum. Peninsula, sc. the Cimbric. Cf. note, 35: flexu; 81: sinus. Cimbri.
The national vanity of La Bletterie is sorely wounded by this remark of T. See his note in loco, also Murphy's. Toga. Cf. note on togatos, 9. Ut concupiscerent. Ut==so that, denoting a consequence. The verb here denotes a continued or habitual state of mind. Hence the imp. subj. Cf. note, 18: crediderit. Discessum, sc. a patrum moribus ad vitia varia. Dr.
A. 36: donec cohortatus est; a repeated, or continued past action by the imp. subj. cf. note, A. 19: donec fieret; and a present action, which is in the nature of the case also a continued action, by the pres. subj. cf. note, 1: separet. Triumphati. Poetice, cf. Virg. Aen. 6, 837: Triumphata Corintho; Hor. Od. 3, 3, 43: Triumphati Medi.
The Red Sea of the Greeks and Romans embraced both the Arabian and the Persian Gulfs; and it was in the latter especially, that pearls were found, as they are to this day. Cf. Plin. Expulsa sint. Cast out, i.e. ashore, by the waves. Subj. in a subordinate clause of the oratio obliqua. Naturam avaritiam. A very characteristic sentence, both for its antithesis and its satire. XIII. Ipsi Britanni.
Subj. after donec. Cf. note, G. 37: affectavere. Reponere odium. See lexicon under repono for this phrase. Impetus exercitus. Until the freshness of his glory, and his popularity with the army should gradually decline. Etiam tum obtinebat, i.e. he was still in possession of the government, and of course in command of the army, in Britain. XL. Triumphalia ornamenta. Dr. Illustris statuae.
Generals are not apt to be prepared beforehand for enterprises, not contemplated at all in their original plans. Qui expectabant. The language is highly rhetorical. Crediderint. Livy, Nepos and Tacitus use the perf. subj. after ut, denoting a consequence, when a single, specific past act is expressed; when a repeated or continued action, the imp. subj. Most writers use the imp. in both cases.
The latter, however, is the more probable, cf. Ritter in loc. A people often bear quite different names abroad from that by which they call themselves at home. Latham. Vocarentur is subj. because it stands in a subordinate clause of the oratio obliqua, cf. Metum. Here taken in an active sense; oftener passive, but used in both senses.
Ne with the subj. expresses a negative intention; ut non a negative result. Inquisitiones. A system of espionage, sc. by the Emperor's tools and informers. Et==etiam, even. Cf. note, 11. Al. etiam. Memoriam perdidissemus, i.e. we should not have dared to remember, if we could have helped it. III. Et quanquam. Et pro sed. So Dr.
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.
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