AN AFRICAN CAMPAIGN
LESSON
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war which broke out between Caesar and Pompey was fighting in the parts of the civilized world, and more than once Africa was
During the
civil
four or five years after the events above narrated, there all
battleground.
Caesar lands a Force in Africa Interim C. Curio duas legiones, D equites, ex Sicilia in Africam transportavit. Ubi eius adventum L. Caesar cum
decem
longis navibus exspectabat
qui autem,
cum
classis
navium multitudmem conspectum Htus ad trireme, pedibus Hasveritus, appulsa proximum naves drumetum fugit quo quoque eius reliquae, fuga Curionis in
venisset,
ducis cognita, statim se receperunt. Curio Marcium Rufum cum classe
Ipse eodem cum
exercitu proficlscitur
logressus, ad flumen
Bagradam
Uticam
praemittit.
triduique iter proIbi C. Camnium pervenit.
relinquit ipse cum equitatu antecedit ad Castra Cornelia exploranda, qui locus peridoneus castrls existimabatur.
Rebilum legatum legionesque
1.
C.
Curi5
D.
generals.
one of Caesar's
the numeral
sup-
ply -que or et with this clause. 2.
Caesar
L.
an
officer
syntax, see the note on p. 79, 1. 21. 6. quo: the adv. fuga: defection.
in
8.
veritus:
reme:
sc.
galley}. " on foot " que, p.
triappalled at. sua (triremis, -is, F., pedibus: we would say
59,
consult the
cf. 1.
Uticam
the base of opera-
tions of
Pompey's navy. 5.
manibus genibus-
8.
Hadrumetum
map on
p. 146;
for
9.
Pompey's forces in Africa. proficlscitur: from Anquil-
laria.
12.
antecedit:
antecedo,
3,
-cessum est, push ahead, lit. qui locus: cf. go on ahead. quae urbs, p. 44, 1. 13. perido-cessi,
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