# The Gate to Cæsar

## CHAPTER XXV.

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1. Ablative Absolute: 255 and a.; H. 431, 4. 2. Perfect Participles of Deponents: 290, d.; H. 195, 2. 3. Substitutes for Perf. Act. Partc.: 290, d. 2; H. 550, N. 4.

1. Cæsar saw that the soldiers of the twelfth legion were hard pushed.

2. Cæsar, seeing[1] the soldiers of the twelfth legion hard pushed, went to the right wing.

3. As[2] all the standard-bearers were wounded, the standards were lost.

4. Then Cæsar snatched a shield from a soldier.

5. The soldiers renewed their courage and delayed[3] the enemy’s attack.

[NOTES.-- 1. seeing: not well rendered +videns+; try casting into a clause--first with +ubi+, then with +cum+. 2. As ... wounded: use a participial construction. 3. renewed and delayed: it is better not to turn into Latin by coördinate verbs.]