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[543] Marching along the bank.

[544] Pitched on the left bank somewhere between Novaesium and
Vetera. The German assailants were probably Tencteri.

[545] Dividing the different portions of the camp.

[546] Cp. iv. 61.

[547] Cp. ii. 16.

[548] See chap. 22 and iv. 16 and 79. But the ships captured
by Civilis were not small craft. Perhaps _luntres_ is here
repeated from the preceding sentence by mistake for _naves_ or
_puppes_.
[549] The de Noord channel carries the combined waters of the
Maas and the Waal into the Lek a few miles above Rotterdam.
From the point of this confluence to the sea the Lek takes the
name of Maas.

[550] Into the country of the Frisii up toward the Zuyder Zee.

[551] To make his party suspect that he was in league with the
Romans.

[552] Cp. iv. 65.

[553] i. e. by betraying Civilis to them.

[554] Tacitus remarks in the _Germania_ (chap. 29) that the
Batavi do not suffer the indignity of paying tribute, but,
'like armour and weapons are reserved for use in war. '

[555] Cp. iv. 13.

[556] Perhaps the Neue Yssel, near Arnhem.