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not less than three days for rest. The legions among the Lemo- 

 vices were quartered near the frontier of the Arverni {c. 46, 4). 

 If stationed in the northern part of the country of the Lemovices, 

 by marching to the Elaver, then across to Decetia, Augustodunum, 

 Dibio, Tullum, Augusta Treverorum, they would have had to 

 travel, at a rough estimate, 385 m. p., twenty-one plus three days ; 

 if quartered as far south as Argentat, as von Goler thought pos- 

 sible, they would have had 80 m. p. farther to march, a total of 

 twenty-six plus four days. If all of the ten legions that occupied 

 the winter camps of 51/50 were present at the review, the various 

 items noted foot up from fifty- four days (12 -f- 10 -)- 8 -|- 24) to 

 sixty-two days (12 -)- 10 -f- lo-j- 30). But these ten legions in- 

 cluded the first,^"^ one of the two which Caesar gave up for the 

 Parthian war, and the thirteenth, which took the place of the 

 fifteenth in Cisalpine Gaul, the latter being the other legion taken 

 from Caesar {c. 54, 1-3). The following considerations will show 

 that the first and thirteenth legions could not have been present 

 at the review. 



It is certain that the first and fifteenth legions were as far south 

 as Capua on December 2, the latest date at which Pompeius can 

 have been authorized to assume command of them. The distance 

 from Augusta Treverorum to Capua via Vienna, the Little St. 

 Bernard, Placentia, Bononia, Rome, was nearly 1,170 ni. p. ; via 

 Vienna, Cularo, Brigantio, Augusta Taurinorum, Genoa, Rome, 

 nearly 1,120 m. p. At 18 m. p. daily, with eleven days for rest, 

 the first legion needed from seventy-three to seventy-six days to 

 reach Capua, without a stop at the Capital. If it be assumed, (i) 

 that the legions in the territory of the Lemovices were quartered 

 but twenty- four days from the place of review, (2) that the review 

 occupied one day, (3) that the first legion started south the day 

 after, (4) that it arrived at Capua in seventy-three days, a total of 

 one hundred and twenty-eight days results (54+1+73) for 

 events between the date of the augural election and December 2, 

 without having allowed time for Caesar's journey through Cisal- 



^'^ This was its number in Pompeius's army. In Caesar's it was known 

 as the sixth. Caesar's fifteenth became Pompeius's third. Drumann- 

 Groebe, Gesch., Ill, p. 707. 



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