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Tegumen omnibus sagum, fibula, aut, si desit, (si desit: potential subjunctive for hypothesis that may prove true or false) spina consertum: cetera intecti (cetera intecti: example of Grrek acc. or acc. of the part concerned: ‘unprotected as to the other parts [of the body]’; cf. G. 338 and Notes, L. 1147.) totos dies juxta focum atque ignem agunt. (totos dies juxta focum atque ignem agunt: totos dies is acc. of time duration; juxta is preposition, ‘close to’ or ‘in the vicinity of’; focum atque ignem is hendiadys, ‘fire in the fireplace’) Locupletissimi veste distinguuntur, non fluitante, sicut Sarmatae ac Parthi, sed stricta et singulos artus exprimente. (singulos artus exprimente: ‘highlighting each limb’; exprimente agrees with the antecedent veste.) Gerunt et ferarum pelles, proximi ripae negligenter, ulteriores exquisitius, ut quibus nullus per commercia cultus. (ut quibus nullus per commercia cultus: ut quibus introduces a relative clause of characteristic with causal force: ‘since they have no other attire available to them through commerce’ (cf. B. 283 and G. 626, Note 1 and 631). quibus is dat. of possessor with implied form of esse: ‘) Eligunt feras, et detracta velamina spargunt maculis pellibusque (maculis pellibusque: hendiadys, ‘spotted skins’) belluarum, quas exterior Oceanus atque ignotum mare gignit. (quas exterior Oceanus atque ignotum mare gignit: ‘which [sea cretures] the outer ocean and an unknown sea foster’; the animals in question are certainly seals; Oceanus is either the North sea or the Baltic sea; ignotum mare may well be apposition of Oceanus, thus: ‘…the outer ocean, a sea unknown to us’.) Nec alius feminis quam viris habitus, nisi quod (nisi quod: ‘except that’, ‘only that’) feminae saepius lineis amictibus velantur, eosque purpura variant, partemque vestitus superioris in manicas non extendunt, nudae brachia ac lacertos: sed et (sed et: see note in ch. 8.) proxima pars pectoris patet.