[89.2] cōnsulibus . . . Bibulō: for this way of dating events, see [XIV, 1].
[89.3] Sc. esse.
[89.4] fūnctus (fungor) = postquam fūnctus est.
[89.6] Sc. eīs, as dat. of indirect object with imperāvit. Caesar’s operations were confined to the southern portion of Great Britain.
[89.7] = Hōc tempore, i.e. during this campaign. The language of this whole sentence is somewhat loose. The writer begins as if he were going to say: Hīc, cum . . . nārrantur, tum Caesarem ipsum ēgregium fēcisse nārrant, but changes the construction at tum.
[89.8] cum . . . tum: cf. [p. 67, n. 7].
[89.9] illud is explained by the clause quod . . . restituit. The episode occurred in one of Caesar’s Gallic campaigns, not, as here stated, in Britain. It is related in the second book of Caesar’s Gallic War. Cf. also Longfellow’s Courtship of Miles Standish, II.
[89.10] iam conversum = quī iam conversus erat.
[89.11] comprehēnsum . . . dētrāxit = comprehendit et . . . dētrāxit.