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pine Gaul. The total time may be reduced to about one hundred 

 and twenty days, if we assume that Caesar sent marching orders 

 to the legions among the Turoni and Lemovices while on his way 

 north. The sacerdotal election, as we have found, regularly fol- 

 lowed the consular, the consular the tribunician ; the earliest 

 possible date of the tribunician election was July 14, of the con- 

 sular July 17, of the augural July 20.' ''^ Between July 20 and 

 December 2 there were one hundred and thirty days. This leaves 

 but nine or ten days for Caesar's extended journey through his 

 Cisalpine province, certainly too short a time. Sufficient time can 

 not be gained for this purpose without impossible reduction of the 

 estimates made above. It is highly improbable, too, that the first 

 legion happened to reach Capua on the very day on which Pom- 

 peius was empowered to take command. Evidently the first legion 

 did not march to the Treveran country. If the first did not, the 

 thirteenth did not, for the sources indicate that the first and the 

 fifteenth came down at the same time, while in c. 54, 3, the tense 

 relation of deducebatiir and mittit proves that the thirteenth 

 marched to Cisalpine Gaul to replace the fifteenth in the same 

 period of time in which the latter was withdrawn. 



Where the first and thirteenth legions wintered in 51/50, or 

 whether they wintered together, is not known; possibly together 

 and in the country of the Lemovices. If so, the longest march 

 of legions to the review would doubtless be that from the country 

 of the Turoni. Allow the courier sent thither with marching 

 orders six days, and the total time for the movements accounted 

 for is fifty-three days ( 12 -{- 10 -j- 6 -f- 24 -f- i )> including one day 

 for the review. 



After the review Caesar placed Labienus in charge of Cisalpine 

 Gaul {c. 52, 2). Caesar now heard frequently that his political 

 enemies were in communication with his lieutenant with a view to 

 depriving him of a part of his army {c. 52, 3). Caesar's friends 

 in Rome, and perhaps others in the Cisalpine province, were prob- 

 ably sending one messenger after another, as their sharp watch 

 over Caesar's interests put them in possession of information.^"® 



Note 54. 



Note 77. 



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