- Source
- Julius Caesar. Aulus Hirtius. C. Iuli Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII A. Hirti Commentarius VII. Holmes, T. Rice (Thomas Rice), editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-23
Orgetorix's conspiracy is revealed to the Helvetii; when summoned to trial, he escapes by gathering his followers, but dies soon after under suspicion of suicide.
Ea res est Helvetiis per indicium enuntiata. Moribus suis Orgetoricem ex vinculis causam dicere coegerunt; damnatum1 poenam sequi oportebat, ut igni cremaretur.2
This design was disclosed to the Helvetii through informers. According to their customs, they compelled Orgetorix to plead his cause in chains; it was necessary that the punishment, namely, being burned with fire, should follow him if condemned.
Die constituta causae dictionis Orgetorix ad iudicium omnem suam familiam, ad hominum milia decem, undique coegit, et omnes clientes obaeratosque suos, quorum magnum numerum habebat, eodem conduxit; per eos ne causam diceret3 se eripuit.
On the day appointed for the pleading of his cause, Orgetorix assembled from all quarters to the court all his household, to the number of about ten thousand men, and led to the same place all his clients and debtors, of whom he had a great number; through them he rescued himself from having to plead his cause.
Cum civitas ob eam rem incitata armis ius suum exequi conaretur multitudinemque hominum ex agris magistratus cogerent, Orgetorix mortuus est;
While the state, incensed on account of this circumstance, was attempting to enforce its law by arms, and the magistrates were assembling a multitude of men from the country, Orgetorix died;
neque abest suspicio, ut Helvetii arbitrantur, quin ipse sibi mortem consciverit.4
nor is suspicion wanting, as the Helvetii think, that he committed suicide.
- 1.4.1damnatum
The perfect participle damnatum modifies Orgetoricem (the omitted subject accusative of the infinitive sequi which depends on the impersonal verb oportebat) and functions as a conditional clause ("if condemned").
- 1.4.1ut igni cremaretur
A noun clause in apposition to poenam, explaining the specific nature of the punishment (namely, that he should be burned with fire).
- 1.4.2ne causam diceret
A clause with the imperfect subjunctive diceret introduced by ne, depending on se eripuit (rescued himself), expressing either purpose ("lest he should plead his cause") or preventing/escaping ("from pleading his cause").
- 1.4.4quin ipse sibi mortem consciverit
A quin clause with the perfect subjunctive consciverit following the negative expression of doubt neque abest suspicio (nor is suspicion absent, meaning 'there is a strong suspicion'), expressing the positive content of the suspicion ("that he committed suicide").