“Quā dē causā Helvētiī quoque reliquōs Gallōs virtūte praecēdunt, quod ferē cotīdiānīs proeliīs cum Germānīs contendunt, cum aut suīs fīnibus eōs prohibent aut ipsī in eōrum fīnibus bellum gerunt. For ⟳ this reason, the Helvetii also surpass the rest of the Gauls in valor, because they fight in almost daily battles with the Germans, when either they keep them [the Germans] away from their own [Helvetian] territories, or [the Helvetians] themselves wage war in their [the Germans’] lands. (Caesar’s use of bellum gerunt signifies more than minor ⟳ skirmishes to defend a border. The first instance of fīnibus is an Ablative of Separation governed by the verb prohibent (“keep away from”); the second is an Ablative of Place Where. For ⟳ comparison, the 1869 translation by W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn: “…when they either repel them from their own territories, or themselves wage war on their frontiers.”)”

“huic generī mīlitum senātus eundem, quem Cannēnsibus, fīnem statuērat mīlitiae.”

For this class of soldier the senate had established a limit in duration to their military service, which was the same as the men at Cannae.

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finitimi fīnitimus finitio finitione finitionem finitiones

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