- 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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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi0448.phi001.humanitext-lat2:6.2.1-6.2.3
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After the death of Indutiomarus, the Treveri attempt to form alliances with various German tribes and Ambiorix to prepare for war. Observing these widespread preparations for rebellion, Caesar decides that he must take swift action.
Interfecto Indutiomaro, ut docuimus, ad eius propinquos a Treveris imperium defertur. Illi finitimos Germanos sollicitare et pecuniam polliceri non desistunt. Cum ab proximis impetrare non possent, ulteriores temptant. Inventis nonnullis civitatibus1 iureiurando inter se confirmant obsidibusque de pecunia cavent: Ambiorigem sibi societate et foedere adiungunt.
Indutiomarus having been slain, as we have shown, the supreme power is conferred by the Treveri upon his relatives. They do not cease to solicit the neighboring Germans and to promise them money. When they could not obtain their request from the nearest, they try those further off. Having found some states, they bind themselves mutually by an oath and secure the money by hostages; they associate Ambiorix with themselves by an alliance and treaty.
Quibus rebus cognitis Caesar, cum undique bellum parari videret, Nervios, Aduatucos ac Menapios adiunctis Cisrhenanis omnibus Germanis esse in armis, Senones ad imperatum non venire2 et cum Carnutibus finitimisque civitatibus consilia communicare, a Treveris Germanos crebris legationibus sollicitari, maturius sibi de bello cogitandum3 putavit.
Caesar, these things being known, when he saw war being prepared on all sides, that the Nervii, Aduatuci, and Menapii, with all the Germans on this side of the Rhine having been joined to them, were in arms, that the Senones did not come at his command and were communicating plans with the Carnutes and the neighboring states, and that the Germans were being solicited by the Treveri with frequent embassies, thought that he must plan for the war earlier than usual.
- 6.2.2Inventis nonnullis civitatibus
"Having found some states." An ablative absolute construction.
- 6.2.3Nervios, Aduatucos ac Menapios... esse in armis, Senones... non venire...
Accusative with infinitive (AcI) clauses acting as the direct objects of videret (imperfect subjunctive). Here, three parallel clauses (Nervios... esse, Senones... non venire et... communicare, and Germanos... sollicitari) depend on videret.
- 6.2.3maturius sibi de bello cogitandum
An accusative with infinitive clause (with esse omitted) functioning as the object of putavit. cogitandum [esse] is an impersonal gerundive (passive periphrastic), and sibi is a dative of agent expressing "he must...". maturius, the comparative of the adverb mature, is used here as an absolute comparative ("earlier than usual").