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... animos pace componi. nec defuit Polyclitus, quo minus ingenti...


defuit...quominus: the same construction as a verb of hindering/preventing with the verb implied, "Polyclitus was not prevented <from being> burdensome ("gravis") with his huge baggage train...."

In addition, OLD 2 s.v. "desum" refers to this sentence for the translation "to fail to" w. the construction "quin or quominus & subj.," "he did not fail...to approach our soldiers as a man to fear" ("terribilis," cf. next note).


 
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