Another fact deserves to be taken into consideration: that, less than fifty years after Cæsar’s campaigns, Drusus, in order to proceed against the Sicambri – that is, against the same people whom Cæsar intended to combat – crossed the Rhine at Bonn. (Florus, IV. 12.)
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The following passage has given room for different interpretations: —
“Hæc utraque insuper bipedalibus trabibus immissis, quantum eorum tignorum junctura distabat, binis utrimque fibulis ab extrema parte distinebantur; quibus disclusis atque in contrariam partem revinctis, tanta erat operis firmitudo atque ea rerum natura, ut, quo major vis aquæ se incitavisset, hoc arctius illigata tenerentur.” (De Bello Gallico, IV. 17.)
It has not been hitherto observed that the words hæc utraque relate to the two couples of one row of piles, and not to the two piles of the same couple. Moreover, the words quibus disclusis, &c., relate to these same two couples, and not, as has been supposed, to fibulis.
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De Bello Gallico, IV. 20.
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De Bello Gallico, II. 4.
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De Bello Gallico, V. 13.
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Pliny, Hist. Nat., IV. 30, § 16.
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Pliny, Hist. Nat., IV. 30, § 16. – Tacitus, Agricola, 10.
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De Bello Gallico, V. 12.
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Strabo, IV., p. 199.
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Agricola, 12.
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De Bello Gallico, V. 12.
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De Bello Gallico, V. 13 and 14.
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De Bello Gallico, V. 20.
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Annales, XIV. 33.
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Although the greater number of manuscripts read Cenimagni, some authors have made two names of it, the Iceni and the Cangi.
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The Anderida Silva, 120 miles in length by 30 in breadth, extended over the counties of Sussex and Kent, in what is now called the Weald. (See Camden, Britannia, edit. Gibson, I., col. 151, 195, 258, edit. of 1753.)
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Diodorus Siculus, V. 21. – Tacitus, Agricola, 12.
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IV., p. 200.
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Agricola, 11.
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Diodorus Siculus, V. 21.
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De Bello Gallico, V. 21.
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De Bello Gallico, V. 14.
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Strabo, IV., p. 200.
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De Bello Gallico, V. 14.
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