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2.12.

M. = Marco. Always read and translate these names without abbreviation. — Messala, etc.: this was B.C. 61, three years before Caesar's first campaign in Gaul. This construction of consulibus (abl. abs., § 419. a (255 and a); B. 227. 1; G. 409, 410; H. 489 and 1 (431 and 2); H-B. 421. 1) was the usual way of denoting the year; not so formal in English as while Messala and Piso were consuls, but merely in the consulship of.


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