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Llevaba botas de caballista, no caligae, lo cual significaba que era de la caballería y no de la infantería, y el rastro de huellas que iban de un establo a otro coincidía exactamente con las huellas que Valerio había seguido desde las letrinas.
He wore horseman's boots, not caligae, which meant he was cavalry, not infantry, and the trail of prints from one stable to the other matched exactly the trail Valerius had tracked from the
Pero escúchame bien: si no le estabas mintiendo a Hipereides y realmente no sabes de dónde provienes, lo único que debes hacer es buscar una ciudad donde un caballista pueda estar al mando de una nave de guerra.
But listen here, if you weren't lying to Hypereides and you really don't know where you're from, you've only to look for a city where a horseman would be put in charge of warships.
Le gustaba presidir las visitas de la familia sentado en un sillón tronal, el eterno sombrero de caballista, y un talante ceremonioso que iba bien a su habla lenta y arrastrada, y a su sabiduría popular.
He liked to preside over family visits sitting in a thronelike chair and wearing his perpetual horseman’s hat with a ceremonious air that suited his slow, determined speech and folk wisdom.
Había hallado honor luchando contra las tribus germánicas hostiles del Rin, y mediante su retorcido semidominio del caballo (el Cuervo demostró ser un caballista digno del rango que Corvo le había otorgado).
He had found honour fighting the hostile Germanic tribes on the Rhine and, in his twisted half-mastery of the Crow-horse, he had proved himself a horseman worthy of the rank Corvus had bestowed on him.
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