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Fuit in emendando quaedam difficultas

cohortium impedīmentīs relictō, cum xxv cohortibus magnōque equitātū contrā hostem proficīscitur, et mīlle passuum intermissō spatiō castra commūnit. Erat inter Labiēnum atque hostem difficilī trānsitū flūmen rīpīsque praeruptīs. Hoc neque ipse trānsīre habēbat in animō neque hostēs trānsitūrōs existimābat. Augebātur auxiliōrum cotīdiē spēs. Loquitur in cōnsiliō palam, quoniam Germānī appropinquāre dīcantur, sēsē suās exercitūsque fortūnās in dubium nōn dēvocātūrum, et posterō diē prīmā lūce castra mōtūrum. Celeriter haec ad hostēs dēferuntur, ut ex magnō Gallōrum equitātūs numerō nōnnūllōs Gallicīs rēbus favēre nātūra cōgēbat.

LESSON 127
The Enemy are Deceived and become Overconfident

Labiēnus noctū tribūnīs mīlitum prīmīsque ōrdinibus convocātīs, quid suī sit cōnsilī, prōpōnit et, quō facilius