- 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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Sabinus is treacherously slain during the conference with Ambiorix, and Cotta is also killed in battle. The remaining Roman soldiers commit suicide in their camp, and only a few survivors manage to bring the news of the disaster to Labienus.
Sabinus quos in praesentia tribunos militum circum se habebat1 et primorum ordinum centuriones se sequi iubet et, cum propius Ambiorigem2 accessisset, iussus arma abicere imperatum facit suisque ut idem faciant imperat.
Sabinus orders the military tribunes whom he had around him at the time, and the centurions of the first rank, to follow him; and when he had approached nearer to Ambiorix, being ordered to throw down his arms, he obeys the command and orders his men to do the same.
Interim, dum de condicionibus inter se agunt longiorque consulto ab Ambiorige instituitur sermo, paulatim circumventus interficitur.
Meanwhile, while they are parleying about the terms and a longer conversation is purposely drawn out by Ambiorix, he is gradually surrounded and slain.
Tum vero suo more victoriam conclamant atque ululatum tollunt impetuque in nostros facto ordines perturbant.
Then indeed, according to their custom, they shout victory and raise a howl, and having made an onset on our men, throw the ranks into confusion.
Ibi Lucius Cotta pugnans interficitur cum maxima parte militum. Reliqui se in castra recipiunt unde erant egressi;
There Lucius Cotta is slain while fighting, with the greatest part of the soldiers. The rest retreat to the camp from which they had marched out;
ex quibus Lucius Petrosidius aquilifer, cum magna multitudine hostium premeretur, aquilam intra vallum proiecit; ipse pro castris fortissime pugnans occiditur. Illi aegre ad noctem oppugnationem sustinent;
of whom Lucius Petrosidius, the standard-bearer, when he was hard pressed by a great multitude of the enemy, threw the eagle within the rampart; he himself is killed fighting most courageously before the camp. They with difficulty sustain the attack until night;
noctu ad unum omnes3 desperata salute se ipsi interficiunt.
at night, all to a man, despairing of safety, kill themselves.
Pauci ex proelio lapsi incertis itineribus per silvas ad Titum Labienum legatum in hiberna perveniunt atque eum de rebus gestis certiorem faciunt.
A few having escaped from the battle, make their way by uncertain paths through the forests to the lieutenant Titus Labienus at his winter quarters, and inform him of what has occurred.
- 5.37.1quos in praesentia tribunos militum circum se habebat
The antecedent tribunos militum is attracted into the relative clause quos ... habebat (antecedent attraction). Structurally, it should be understood as tribunos militum quos in praesentia circum se habebat.
- 5.37.1propius Ambiorigem
The comparative adverb propius (from prope) is used with the accusative (Ambiorigem), functioning like a preposition.
- 5.37.6ad unum omnes
The phrase ad unum is an idiom meaning "to a man" or "to the last single person," emphasizing omnes to mean "all without exception."