Sentence Correction (SC) | In 49 BCE, Gaius Julius Caesar, one of the most

Notwithstanding other idiom issues, the full import of the original version can be seen in the use of the definite article ' the' in choices A and E to denote the number of slaves that Carter freed. The choices that do not use the definite article, indicate that he freed only some 500 of the unspecified much larger force that he was holding. That he freed them lock, stock and barrel is the cornerstone of the surprise and shock that his act imparted.
Extrapolating the analogy to Caesar's case,