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The Gate to Cæsar

Book 2 — Chapter XIX.

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Chapter XIX.

1. Dative of Service: 233 a; H. 390.

2. Imperfect of Repeated Action: 277; H. 469, II.

3. Ablative of Manner: 248 and Rem.; H. 419, III.

1. The cavalry of the enemy kept making attacks.

2. They would attack our horsemen with great courage.

3. These horsemen had been sent ahead by Cæsar as a protection to the camp.

4. Again and again did the enemy pour forward from the woods, where they had hidden.

5. The slingers and archers helped1 the horsemen.

6. With great speed they would run as far as2 the woods.

7. With wonderful bravery they engage in battle with the Nervii.

Notes.— 1 helped: two words in Latin. 2 as far as: ad, or usque ad.

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