[*] 89.21. soldurios, paid retainers (hence soldiers), a Gallic word. It is related that these soldurii were dressed in royal garments like their chief. [*] 89.22. condicio: the same condition of service was found among the Germans (Bk. vi. ch. 23), and was the foundation of feudal vassalage. — commodis: abl. with fruantur. [*] 89.23. quorum amicitiae, to whose friendship. — si quid … accidat: a euphemism, cf. 16 14. [*] 89.24. sibi mortem, etc.: cf. 4 15. [*] 89.26. qui … recusaret: ref. clause of characteristic ; cf. 5 6, 51 4. [*] 89.27. cum his (repeated from cum devotis; cf. repetition of vidit, 67 7), with these (I say).
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BOOK FIRST. — B.C. 58.
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BOOK THIRD. — B.C. 56.
BOOK FOURTH. — B.C. 55.
BOOK FIFTH.—B.C. 54.
BOOK VI. BOOK SIXTH.—B.C. 53.
BOOK SEVENTH.—B.C. 52.
Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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