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"english": "Caesar, as he didn't want either the interview to be for any reason set aside or confide his wellbeing in the hands of the Gallic cavalry, said he saw as most fit the Gallic horsemen be stripped off their steeds and in their place mount legionaries of the 10th legion, in which he had the utmost faith, that he might have as trusted a body-guard as one could have if the occasion ever urged its use.",
"ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.42",
"text": "Caesar, quod neque conloquium interposita causa tolli volebat neque salutem suam Gallorum equitatui committere audebat, commodissimum esse statuit omnibus equis Gallis equitibus detractis eo legionarios milites legionis X., cui quam maxime confidebat, imponere, ut praesidium quam amicissimum, si quid opus facto esset, haberet.",
"translation": "Caesar, as he didn't want either the interview to be for any reason set aside or confide his wellbeing in the hands of the Gallic cavalry, said he saw as most fit the Gallic horsemen be stripped off their steeds and in their place mount legionaries of the 10th legion, in which he had the utmost faith, that he might have as trusted a body-guard as one could have if the occasion ever urged its use.",
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"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.169–170",
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"english": "for this reason/therefore",
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"text": "qua de causa/qua de re/quam ob causam",
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"english": "Caesar, as he didn't want either the interview to be for any reason set aside or confide his wellbeing in the hands of the Gallic cavalry, said he saw as most fit the Gallic horsemen be stripped off their steeds and in their place mount legionaries of the 10th legion, in which he had the utmost faith, that he might have as trusted a body-guard as one could have if the occasion ever urged its use.",
"ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.42",
"text": "Caesar, quod neque conloquium interposita causa tolli volebat neque salutem suam Gallorum equitatui committere audebat, commodissimum esse statuit omnibus equis Gallis equitibus detractis eo legionarios milites legionis X., cui quam maxime confidebat, imponere, ut praesidium quam amicissimum, si quid opus facto esset, haberet.",
"translation": "Caesar, as he didn't want either the interview to be for any reason set aside or confide his wellbeing in the hands of the Gallic cavalry, said he saw as most fit the Gallic horsemen be stripped off their steeds and in their place mount legionaries of the 10th legion, in which he had the utmost faith, that he might have as trusted a body-guard as one could have if the occasion ever urged its use.",
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"english": "(The union of Dido and Aeneas begets tragedy.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.169–170",
"text": "Ille diēs prīmus lētī prīmusque malōrum\ncausa fuit ….\nThat day – a first of death, and onset of misery – it was the cause [of everything].",
"translation": "(The union of Dido and Aeneas begets tragedy.)",
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"english": "SIMO: Even this was not a strong enough reason to reprimand [my son].",
"ref": "166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 149–150",
"text": "SĪMŌ: Nē haec quidem / satis vehemēns causa ad objūrgandum.",
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"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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"word": "dicis causā"
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"word": "in causā sum"
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"4": "I strike"
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