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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 decided not to pursue the enemy further and arrived at Cicero's camp, where he praised the soldiers' valor, learned about the disaster of Sabinus and Cotta, and consoled the troops by explaining that the loss had been expiated by divine favor and their own courage.
Longius prosequi veritus,1 quod silvae paludesque intercedebant neque etiam parvulo detrimento illorum locum relinqui2 videbat, omnibus suis incolumibus copiis eodem die ad Ciceronem pervenit.
Fearing to pursue further, because woods and marshes intervened and he saw that no opportunity was left for inflicting even a very small loss upon them, he arrived on the same day at Cicero’s camp with all his forces safe and sound.
Institutas turres, testudines munitionesque hostium admiratur; legione producta cognoscit non decimum quemque3 esse reliquum militem sine vulnere:
He admired the towers, tortoises, and fortifications set up by the enemy; having drawn up the legion, he learned that not even one soldier in ten was left without a wound:
ex his omnibus iudicat rebus, quanto cum periculo et quanta cum virtute res sint administratae.
from all these things he judged with how great danger and with how great valor affairs had been conducted.
Ciceronem pro eius merito legionemque collaudat; centuriones singillatim tribunosque militum appellat, quorum egregiam fuisse virtutem testimonio Ciceronis cognoverat. De casu Sabini et Cottae certius ex captivis cognoscit.
He praised Cicero according to his merit, and also the legion; he addressed the centurions and military tribunes individually, whose outstanding valor he had learned of through the testimony of Cicero. He obtained more definite information about the fate of Sabinus and Cotta from the captives.
Postero die contione habita rem gestam proponit, milites consolatur et confirmat:
On the following day, having held an assembly, he set forth what had occurred, and consoled and encouraged the soldiers:
quod detrimentum culpa et temeritate legati sit acceptum, hoc aequiore animo ferendum docet,4 quod beneficio deorum immortalium et virtute eorum expiato incommodo neque hostibus diutina laetatio neque ipsis longior dolor relinquatur.
he taught that the loss which had been sustained through the fault and rashness of the legate should be borne with a more resigned mind on this account, because, the disaster having been expiated by the favor of the immortal gods and by their own valor, neither lasting joy was left to the enemy, nor very prolonged grief to themselves.
- 5.52.1veritus
The perfect participle of the deponent verb vereor (to fear), functioning as a circumstantial participle expressing cause ('fearing' or 'because he feared'). Although perfect in form, it denotes a completed mental state that continues into the action of the main verb.
- 5.52.1parvulo detrimentum illorum locum relinqui
The accusative locum is the subject of the passive infinitive relinqui. Detrimento is a dative of purpose or reference ('for a loss/harm'), and illorum (of them, referring to the enemy) is a genitive modifying detrimentum. Thus, 'that no opportunity was left for [inflicting] even a very small loss upon them'.
- 5.52.2non decimum quemque
The pronoun quisque combined with the ordinal decimus means 'every tenth' (one in ten). With the negative non, it emphasizes an extremely low proportion: 'not even one in ten' or 'fewer than one in ten'.
- 5.52.6quod detrimentum... hoc aequiore animo ferendum docet
The antecedent detrimentum is incorporated into the relative clause introduced by quod. In the main clause, the demonstrative pronoun id (which would be the subject of the gerundive construction ferendum [esse]) is omitted. Hoc is an ablative of cause ('on this account') or functions as an ablative of measure of difference modifying the comparative aequiore.