- 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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German cavalry launch a sudden attack on the Roman camp, causing widespread panic and despair among the unprepared soldiers, who recall past disasters.
Hoc ipso tempore et casu Germani equites interveniunt protinusque eodem illo, quo venerant, cursu ab decumana porta in castra irrumpere conantur, nec prius sunt visi obiectis ab ea parte silvis, quam castris appropinquarent, usque eo ut qui sub vallo tenderent mercatores recipiendi sui1 facultatem non haberent.
At this very time and by this chance, the German horsemen arrive and immediately, in that same course in which they had come, attempt to break into the camp through the decuman gate. Nor were they seen beforehand, because the woods obstructed them on that side, until they were drawing near to the camp, to such a degree that the merchants who were pitching their tents under the rampart had no opportunity of retreating.
Inopinantes nostri re nova perturbantur, ac vix primum impetum cohors in statione sustinet.
Our men, not expecting them, are thrown into confusion by the sudden event, and the cohort on guard duty scarcely sustains the first onset.
Circumfunduntur ex reliquis hostes partibus, si quem aditum reperire possent.2
The enemy pour around from the remaining parts, to see if they could find any entrance.
Aegre portas nostri tuentur, reliquos aditus locus ipse per se munitioque defendit.
Our men with difficulty defend the gates; the place itself by itself and the fortification defend the other approaches.
Totis trepidatur castris,3 atque alius ex alio causam tumultus quaerit; neque quo signa ferantur neque quam in partem quisque conveniat provident.
There is a panic in the whole camp, and one inquires of another the cause of the uproar; nor do they foresee whither the standards should be carried, nor in what direction each person should assemble.
Alius iam castra capta pronuntiat, alius deleto exercitu atque imperatore victores barbaros venisse contendit;
One already declares that the camp is taken, another maintains that the army and the commander-in-chief have been destroyed, and that the victorious barbarians have come;
plerique novas sibi ex loco religiones fingunt Cottaeque et Tituri calamitatem, qui in eodem occiderint castello, ante oculos ponunt.
most of them form new superstitions for themselves from the place, and place before their eyes the disaster of Cotta and Titurius, who perished in the same fort.
Tali timore omnibus perterritis confirmatur opinio barbaris, ut ex captivo audierant, nullum esse intus praesidium.
When all were thoroughly terrified by such fear, the opinion was confirmed among the barbarians, as they had heard from the captive, that there was no garrison within.
perrumpere nituntur seque ipsi adhortantur, ne tantam fortunam ex manibus dimittant.
They strive to break through and encourage each other not to let such great good fortune slip from their hands.
- 6.37.2recipiendi sui
A grammatically peculiar agreement where the gerundive recipiendi takes the genitive singular form, attracted by the pronominal genitive sui (which is identical in singular and plural), even though it refers to a plural noun (mercatores).
- 6.37.4si quem aditum reperire possent
The clause introduced by si with the subjunctive possent functions as an indirect question or conditional clause implying expectation ('to see if they could find...'). quem is the accusative singular masculine of the indefinite pronoun quis, following si where the prefix ali- of aliquem is dropped.
- 6.37.6Totis trepidatur castris
The intransitive verb trepidare (to tremble, be in a panic) is used in the impersonal passive third-person singular (trepidatur), expressing the state itself ('panic reigns throughout the camp'). Totis castris is an ablative of place.