- 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 · 2026-10-27
This passage describes the Suebi's practice of keeping their surrounding lands desolate as a mark of prestige, and the characteristics and subjugation of the neighboring Ubii.
Publice maximam putant esse laudem quam latissime a suis finibus vacare agros: hac re significari magnum numerum civitatum suam vim sustinere non posse.
They consider it a matter of the greatest state prestige that the lands should lie desolate as widely as possible from their borders: that by this fact it is demonstrated that a large number of states cannot withstand their power.
Itaque una ex parte a Suebis circiter milia passuum C agri vacare dicuntur.
Therefore, on one side of the Suebi, the lands are said to lie desolate for about a hundred miles.
Ad alteram partem succedunt Ubii, quorum fuit civitas ampla atque florens, ut est captus Germanorum;1 ii paulo,2 quamquam sunt eiusdem generis, sunt ceteris humaniores, propterea quod Rhenum attingunt multum ad eos mercatores ventitant et ipsi propter propinquitatem [quod] Gallicis sunt moribus adsuefacti.
On the other side, the Ubii succeed, whose state was large and flourishing, by the standard of the Germans; though they are of the same race, they are a little more civilized than the rest, because they border on the Rhine, and merchants frequent them often, and they themselves, owing to their proximity, have become accustomed to Gallic customs.
Hos3 cum Suebi multis saepe bellis experti4 propter amplitudinem gravitatem civitatis finibus expellere non potuissent, tamen vectigales sibi fecerunt ac multo humiliores infirmiores redegerunt.
Though the Suebi, having often tried them in many wars, had not been able to expel them from their territory because of the extent and influence of their state, they nevertheless made them tributary to themselves and rendered them much more humble and weak.
- 4.3.3ut est captus Germanorum
An idiomatic expression composed of the conjunction ut (meaning 'as' or 'according to') and the fourth-declension noun captus (grasp, capacity, or standard), meaning 'by the standard of the Germans' or 'considering the capacity of the Germans.'
- 4.3.3paulo
An ablative of degree of difference modifying the comparative adjective humaniores, meaning 'by a little' or 'slightly.'
- 4.3.4Hos
A connecting relative (relative pronoun used at the beginning of a sentence to link clauses), functioning like a demonstrative pronoun ('these people', i.e., the Ubii) and serving as the direct object of both the infinitive expellere and the main verbs fecerunt and redegerunt.
- 4.3.4experti
The perfect participle of the deponent verb experior, active in meaning ('having tried' or 'having experienced'), agreeing with the subject Suebi.