- 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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Caesar arrives at Portus Itius and learns that some ships were forced back by a storm, while the rest are ready. He decides to take most of the Gallic leaders with him as hostages to prevent any rebellion during his absence.
His rebus constitutis Caesar ad portum Itium cum legionibus pervenit.
These matters having been settled, Caesar arrived at Portus Itius with his legions.
Ibi cognoscit LX naves, quae in Meldis factae erant, tempestate reiectas1 cursum tenere non potuisse atque eodem unde erant profectae revertisse; reliquas paratas ad navigandum atque omnibus rebus instructas invenit.
There he learned that sixty ships, which had been built among the Meldi, having been driven back by a storm, had not been able to hold their course and had returned to the same place from which they had set out; the remaining ships he found ready for sailing and equipped with everything.
Eodem equitatus totius Galliae convenit, numero2 milium quattuor, principesque ex omnibus civitatibus.
To the same place assembled the cavalry of all Gaul, four thousand in number, and the leading men from all the states.
Ex quibus perpaucos, quorum in se fidem perspexerat, relinquere in Gallia, reliquos obsidum loco3 secum ducere decreverat, quod, cum ipse abesset, motum Galliae verebatur.
Of these he had resolved to leave in Gaul only a very few whose fidelity toward himself he had clearly perceived, and to take the rest with him in the character of hostages, because, since he himself would be absent, he feared an uprising in Gaul.
- 5.5.2reiectas
A perfect participle agreeing with 'naves'. It is part of the accusative-and-infinitival clause (with 'naves' as subject and 'potuisse' as infinitive) dependent on 'cognoscit'. 'tempestate reiectas' functions adverbially, expressing cause or temporal circumstance ('having been driven back by a storm').
- 5.5.3numero
An ablative of specification, meaning 'in number'. 'milium quattuor' (of four thousand) is a genitive modifying 'numero', specifying the exact quantity.
- 5.5.4obsidum loco
The ablative 'loco' with a genitive is an idiomatic expression meaning 'in the place of', 'in the character of', or 'as'. Here it means 'as hostages' or 'in the status of hostages'.