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The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 58 — BOOK XIV

Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation

παρενέβαλλε, which Schweig. translates castra locavit: but though the word does sometimes bear that meaning, I cannot think that it does so here. Scipio seems to have retained his camp on the hill, only two and a half miles’ distant, and to have come down into the plain to offer battle each of the three days. Hence the imperfect.

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