- 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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Caesar decides to establish a new camp about six hundred paces from Ariovistus, completes the construction while repelling the enemy's harassment, and returns to the larger camp after leaving some troops.
Ubi eum castris se tenere1 Caesar intellexit, ne diutius commeatu prohiberetur, ultra eum locum, quo in loco Germani consederant, circiter passus DC ab his, castris idoneum locum delegit acieque triplici instructa ad eum locum venit.
When Caesar perceived that he kept himself in camp, in order that he might not be longer cut off from provisions, he chose a place suitable for a camp beyond that place where the Germans had encamped, about six hundred paces from them, and came to that place with a triple battle line drawn up.
Primam et secundam aciem in armis esse, tertiam castra munire iussit.
He ordered the first and second lines to remain under arms, and the third to fortify the camp.
[Hic locus ab hoste circiter passus DC, uti dictum est, aberat.] Eo circiter hominum XVI milia expedita cum omni equitatu Ariovistus misit, quae copiae2 nostros terrerent et munitione prohiberent.
[This place was about six hundred paces from the enemy, as has been said.] Ariovistus sent thither about sixteen thousand light-armed men with all his cavalry, which forces were to terrify our men and prevent them from fortifying.
Nihilo setius Caesar, ut ante constituerat, duas acies hostem propulsare, tertiam opus perficere iussit. Munitis castris3 duas ibi legiones reliquit et partem auxiliorum, quattuor reliquas legiones in castra maiora reduxit.
Nevertheless, Caesar, as he had previously determined, ordered the two lines to drive back the enemy, and the third to complete the work. When the camp was fortified, he left two legions there and a part of the auxiliaries, and led the remaining four legions back to the larger camp.
- 1.49.1se tenere
The subject accusative of the infinitive tenere is eum (referring to Ariovistus), and the reflexive pronoun se refers back to him as well, not to the main subject Caesar.
- 1.49.3quae copiae
An attraction of the antecedent copiae into the relative clause. It introduces a relative clause of purpose with the subjunctive verbs terrerent and prohiberent.
- 1.49.4Munitis castris
Ablative absolute construction using the perfect passive participle. It expresses a temporal or conditional circumstance ('when the camp had been fortified') prior to the action of the main verb reliquit.