- 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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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi0448.phi001.humanitext-lat2:2.16.1-2.16.5
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During his march through the territory of the Nervii, Caesar learns from prisoners that they, along with allied neighboring tribes, are waiting across a river and have sent non-combatants to a marshy stronghold.
Cum per eorum fines triduum iter fecisset, inveniebat ex captivis Sabim flumen a castris suis non amplius milibus passuum X1 abesse;
When he had made a three days’ march through their territory, he found out from the prisoners that the river Sabis was not more than ten miles distant from his camp;
trans id flumen omnes Nervios consedisse adventumque ibi Romanorum expectare una cum Atrebatibus et Viromanduis, finitimis suis (nam his utrisque2 persuaserant uti eandem belli fortunam experirentur);
that all the Nervii had posted themselves on the other side of that river and were there awaiting the arrival of the Romans, together with the Atrebates and the Viromandui, their neighbors (for they had persuaded both of these to try the same fortune of war);
expectari etiam ab iis Atuatucorum copias atque esse in itinere;
that the forces of the Atuatuci were also expected by them and were on the march;
mulieres quique3 per aetatem ad pugnam inutiles viderentur in eum locum coniecisse quo propter paludes exercitui aditus non esset.
that they had conveyed their women and those who through age seemed useless for battle into a place where, because of the marshes, there was no access for an army.
- 2.16.1milibus passuum X
An ablative of comparison following the comparative adverb amplius (more). X represents the numeral decem (ten). The ablative plural milibus of milia passuum (miles, literally 'thousands of paces') is used to mean 'not more than ten miles distant'.
- 2.16.3his utrisque
Dative object of the verb persuaderant (they had persuaded), referring to both the Atrebates and the Viromandui. The following uti... experirentur (ut + imperfect subjunctive) is an indirect command clause expressing the substance of the persuasion.
- 2.16.5quique
A combination of the conjunction que (and) and the relative pronoun qui. The accusative antecedent eos is omitted, making the whole phrase equivalent to et eos qui... (and those who...), which serves as the accusative object of the perfect infinitive coniecisse (parallel with mulieres).