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- 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 inspects the damaged ships and orders repairs and the construction of a strong fortification. He then returns to the field where the Britons had assembled under their newly appointed commander-in-chief, Cassivellaunus.
His rebus cognitis Caesar legiones equitatumque revocari atque in itinere resistere1 iubet, ipse ad naves revertitur;
Upon learning these things, Caesar orders the legions and cavalry to be recalled and to halt on their march; he himself returns to the ships.
eadem fere quae ex nuntiis litterisque cognoverat coram perspicit, sic ut amissis circiter XL navibus reliquae tamen refici posse magno negotio viderentur.2
He perceives before his own eyes almost the same things which he had learned from the messengers and dispatches, so that, although about forty ships were lost, the remainder nevertheless seemed capable of being repaired with great difficulty.
Itaque ex legionibus fabros deligit et ex continenti alios arcessi iubet;
Therefore, he selects workmen from the legions and orders others to be summoned from the continent;
Labieno scribit, ut quam plurimas posset eis legionibus, quae sunt apud eum, naves instituat.
he writes to Labienus to construct as many ships as he can with those legions which are with him.
Ipse, etsi res erat multae operae ac laboris,3 tamen commodissimum esse statuit omnes naves subduci et cum castris una munitione coniungi.
He himself, although the matter was of great trouble and labor, yet decided that it was most convenient for all the ships to be hauled up and connected with the camp by a single fortification.
In his rebus circiter dies X consumit ne nocturnis quidem temporibus ad laborem militum intermissis.
In these matters he spends about ten days, the labor of the soldiers not being interrupted even during the night hours.
Subductis navibus castrisque egregie munitis easdem copias, quas ante, praesidio navibus4 reliquit: ipse eodem unde redierat proficiscitur.
Having hauled up the ships and exceptionally fortified the camp, he left the same forces as before for the protection of the ships; he himself sets out for the same place from which he had returned.
Eo cum venisset, maiores iam undique in eum locum copiae Britannorum convenerant summa imperi bellique administrandi communi consilio permissa Cassivellauno,5 cuius fines a maritimis civitatibus flumen dividit, quod appellatur Tamesis, a mari circiter milia passuum LXXX.
When he had arrived there, larger forces of the Britons had already assembled from all sides at that place, the chief command and management of the war having been entrusted by common counsel to Cassivellaunus, whose territories a river, which is called the Thames, divides from the maritime states, about eighty miles from the sea.
Huic superiore tempore cum reliquis civitatibus continentia bella intercesserant; sed nostro adventu permoti Britanni hunc toti bello imperioque praefecerant.
Previously, continuous wars had occurred between him and the remaining states; but the Britons, moved by our arrival, had placed him in command of the whole war and leadership.
- 5.11.1revocari atque in itinere resistere
In the accusative with infinitive construction governed by iubet, legiones equitatumque serves as the common subject accusative. Note the coordination of the passive infinitive revocari and the active infinitive resistere.
- 5.11.2reliquae tamen refici posse magno negotio viderentur
In the consecutive clause introduced by ut, reliquae is the subject of the main verb viderentur, and refici posse (to be able to be repaired) acts as the complementary infinitive. magno negotio is an ablative of manner meaning 'with great difficulty.'
- 5.11.5multae operae ac laboris
Genitive of quality (genitivus qualitatis) acting as the predicate after the copula erat, denoting that the matter was of a nature involving great trouble and labor.
- 5.11.7praesidio navibus
Double dative construction: praesidio is the dative of purpose (as a guard) and navibus is the dative of reference (for the ships), together meaning 'as a guard for the ships.'
- 5.11.8summa imperi bellique administrandi communi consilio permissa Cassivellauno
Ablative absolute. The noun summa (chief command) is the subject, agreeing with the perfect participle permissa in the feminine singular ablative. belli administrandi is a gerundive construction in the genitive, coordinated with imperi to modify summa.