- 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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Having detected the departure of the Roman forces, the enemy sets up an ambush in the woods two miles away and launches a sudden attack as the column descends into a ravine.
At hostes, posteaquam ex nocturno fremitu vigiliisque de profectione eorum senserunt, collocatis insidiis bipertito in silvis opportuno atque occulto loco a milibus passuum circiter duobus1 Romanorum adventum exspectabant, et cum se maior pars agminis in magnam convallem demisisset, ex utraque parte eius vallis subito se ostenderunt novissimosque premere et primos prohibere ascensu2 atque iniquissimo nostris3 loco proelium committere coeperunt.
But the enemy, after they perceived their departure from the noise during the night and their watching, having placed ambushes in two parts in the woods in an advantageous and hidden place about two miles off, were awaiting the arrival of the Romans; and when the greater part of the column had descended into a large ravine, they suddenly showed themselves from both sides of that ravine, and began to harass the rear, to prevent the vanguard from ascending, and to join battle in a place most disadvantageous to our men.
- 5.32.1a milibus passuum circiter duobus
The preposition "a" ("ab") is used here to denote distance, meaning "at a distance of about two miles" from the point of reference (the Roman camp).
- 5.32.2ascensu
Ablative of separation used with the verb "prohibere", meaning "to prevent [them] from ascending."
- 5.32.2nostris
Dative of reference depending on the superlative adjective "iniquissimo", meaning "most disadvantageous to our men."