Sallust Bellum Catilinae: Sed postquam Antonius cum exercitu

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I've been away from my Latin for quite a while, so I need your help to shake me out of my rustiness! This passage is from Sallust's Bellum Catilinae.

Sed postquam Antonius cum exercitu adventabat, Catilina per montis iter facere, modo ad urbem, modo Galliam vorsus castra movere, hostibus occasionem pugnandi non dare.

I can't remember whether in these instances a verb is implied, something like incepit, or whether to take this as a gerund.
 
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Re: A rather embarrassing question

those are historical infinitives
 
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Re: A rather embarrassing question

Brushing up (*cough*relearning*cough*) my indirect statements...

but what has been the result? – a profound conviction that the neglected education of my fellow-creatures is the grand source of the misery I deplore;

sed quid evēnit ex hoc? sententia ima, educationem relictam sodaliorum esse origo magna miseriae quam deploro .
 
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