[*] 2.15. perfacile （predicate with esse, while its subject is the infin. clause with potiri, § 289. d (189. d); G. 422. 3; H. 394. 4 (438. 3); H-B. 325. b）, showing that it was quite easy, since they exceeded all men in valor, to win the empire of all Gaul. — esse: indir. disc., depending on some word implied in persuasit （§ 580. a (336. 2. N.2); B. 314. 2; G. 546. R. I, 649. R. 2; H. 642. 1 (523. 1. N); cf. H-B. 534. 1. a.）. Notice that the Latin has the power of putting various dependent clauses after a single verb. Here the idea of persuading takes the thing that was to be done in an ut clause. The facts of which they were persuaded take the indir. disc. Careful attention to this usage will make many difficult passages easy. It is not the verb used, but the meaning, that decides the construction. — cum praestarent: subjv. after cum meaning since, § 549 (326); B. 286. 2; G. 586; H. 598 (517); H-B. 526.
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Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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