Caesar's Gallic war; (Allen and Greenough's ed.) . rendering Latin wordsby the English one corresponding. Obtineo does not mean obtain, noroccupo, occupy. The corresponding word is often suggestive as a guide tothe meaning, but must not be used without careful examination. 2 3 ab Sequanis, on the side of, etc., regarded from the point of view ofthe Province; a very common use of ab; § 429. b (260. b); G. 390. 2. N.^;H. 490 (434. i); H-B. 406. 2. 2 4 vergit, etc., slopes to the north ; the highlands (Cevennes) arealong the southern boundary, and the rivers in that quarter flow in their main cou
Caesar's Gallic war; (Allen and Greenough's ed.) . rendering Latin wordsby the English one corresponding. Obtineo does not mean obtain, noroccupo, occupy. The corresponding word is often suggestive as a guide tothe meaning, but must not be used without careful examination. 2 3 ab Sequanis, on the side of, etc., regarded from the point of view ofthe Province; a very common use of ab; § 429. b (260. b); G. 390. 2. N.^;H. 490 (434. i); H-B. 406. 2. 2 4 vergit, etc., slopes to the north ; the highlands (Cevennes) arealong the southern boundary, and the rivers in that quarter flow in their main course northerly. — septentriones{septem triones, the seven plough-oxen ) the constellations of the Great andLittle Bears. The word is used both inthe singular, as below, and in the plural,as here. 2 5 Galliae: Celtic Gaul, thecountry just described, not Gallia 6 spectant: considered from the Province, it lies in that direc-tion. 2 8 ad Hispaniam, next to Spain, the Bay of Biscay: § 428. d ();H. 420. I (433. I).. I- 1,2] The Helvetian War. 253 2 9 spectat: cf. spectant above. — inter occasum, etc., northwest, the Province. 2 11 Chap. 2. XlQ\i\!i^s%\va^x&, of highest birth. Popular revolutions had,among the Gauls as among the Greeks and Romans, mostly dispossessedthe old chiefs, or kings; and they had established an annual magistratecalled Vergobret (ch. 16). But the heads of the ruhng families wouldnaturally be ambitious to recover what they could of the old class power,and Orgetorix is represented as aspiring to create a monarchy in Gaul. 2 12 Marco. Always read and translate these names withoutabbreviation. — Messala, etc.: this was 61, three years before Caesarshrst campaign in Gaul. This construction of consulibus was the usualway of denoting the year; not so formal in English as while Messala andPiso were consuls, but merely in the consulship of; abl. abs., § 419. a (255.(/); B. 227. I ; G. 409, 410; H. 489 and i (43
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