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FIRST LATIN

127

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

10

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

15

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)

.