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Death of Gibich, flight of Hagen (116–122)

Interea Gibicho defungitur, ipseque regno  Defungitur equiv. to moritur

 

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Guntharius successit et ilico Pannoniarum  Pannoniarum: the Emperor Trajan divided the Roman province of Pannonia in two, creating Pannonia Superior and Pannonia Inferior. Hence the practice of using the plural to refer to the geographic region.

 

 
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Foedera dissolvit censumque subire negavit.  DSSDDS 
Hoc ubi iam primum Hagano cognoverat exul,  DSDSDS
Hiatus: primum Hagano
 
Nocte fugam molitur et ad dominum properavit. 120  Aeneid 2.108-109.: Saepe fugam Danai Troia cupiere relicta/ moliri. ‘Often the Greeks longed to quit Troy.’

 

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Waltharius tamen ad pugnas praecesserat Hunos,  Aeneid 9.47: Turnus at ante volans tardum praecesserat agmen. ‘But Turnus had hurried forward in advance of his tardy column.’

 

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Et quocumque iret, mox prospera sunt comitata.  SSSDDS
Elision: quocumque iret
 

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