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ianus in Pannonia....' [The rest is lost.] FOOTNOTES: [518] iv. 78. [519] Cp. iv. 28, 33, 35. [520] Adiutrix. [521] Before this Cerialis had five legions, I, IV, XVI, XXI, and XXII, but of these only XXI was in full force, so these new reinforcements may have doubled his army. The auxiliaries had been called out by Hordeonius Flaccus (iv. 24). [522] Perhaps 'in wedge-formation' (see note 283). [523] Cp. iv. 26. [524] Bructeri, Tencteri, &c. (cp. iv. 23). [525] Cp. ii. 11. [526] Cp. iii. 44. [527] They had been newly enrolled (see iv. 68). [528] i.e. the Roman army of occupation which had joined the Gauls and come over again. [529] Vetera. [530] See note 522. [531] Chap. 14. [532] Stationed in the Rhine (see chap. 21). [533] Cp. iv. 68. [534] Cp. iv. 79. [535] ? Cleves. [536] This mole, begun by Drusus in A.D. 9, was built out from the left bank of the Rhine near Cleves. It turned most of the water into the Lek, thus making the island easily accessible from the Roman side and barring access from the north. Civilis now reversed this position. His friends were now on the north. The swollen Waal would be an obstacle to the Romans. [537] i.e. the Waal. [538] See iii. 35. [539] These places cannot be certainly identified. They must have lain on the south of the Waal, probably east and west of Nymwegen. [540] Across the now swollen Waal. [541] See iv. 70. [542] Which he had found on his way. [543] Marching along the bank. [544] Pitched on the left bank somewhere between Novaesium and Vetera. The German assailants were probably Tencteri. [545] Dividing the different portions of the camp. [546] Cp. iv. 61. [547] Cp. ii. 16. [548] See chap. 22 and iv. 16 and 79. But the ships captured by Civilis were not small craft. Perhaps _luntres_ is here repeated from the preceding sentence by mistake for _naves_ or _puppes_. [549] The de Noord channel carries the combined waters of the Maas and the Waal into the Lek a few miles above Rotterdam. From the point of this confluence to the sea the Lek takes the name of Maas. [550] Into the country of the
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