- 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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The Roman soldiers returning from foraging realize the danger and panic due to the lack of fortifications, while the barbarians temporarily halt their attack mistaking them for the returning legions, but resume upon seeing their small number.
Interim confecta frumentatione milites nostri clamorem exaudiunt: praecurrunt equites; quanto res sit in periculo1 cognoscunt.
Meanwhile, their foraging being completed, our soldiers hear the shout; the cavalry hasten forward and learn in how great danger the affair is.
Hic vero nulla munitio est quae perterritos recipiat:2 modo conscripti atque usus militaris imperiti ad tribunum militum centurionesque ora convertunt; quid ab his praecipiatur exspectant. Nemo est tam fortis quin rei novitate perturbetur.3
But here indeed there is no fortification to receive them in their terror; those newly levied and unskilled in military practice turn their faces to the military tribune and the centurions, waiting to see what orders may be given by them. There is no one so brave as not to be discomposed by the novelty of the situation.
Barbari signa procul conspicati oppugnatione desistunt:
The barbarians, catching sight of the standards from a distance, desist from the siege;
redisse primo legiones credunt, quas longius discessisse4 ex captivis cognoverant; postea despecta paucitate ex omnibus partibus impetum faciunt.
at first they believe that the legions have returned, which they had learned from the prisoners had departed further off; afterwards, despising the smallness of their number, they make an onset from all sides.
- 6.39.1quanto res sit in periculo
An indirect question clause acting as the object of 'cognoscunt'. The verb 'sit' is in the subjunctive present.
- 6.39.2quae perterritos recipiat
A relative clause of characteristic describing the antecedent 'nulla munitio' (no fortification). The verb 'recipiat' is in the subjunctive present.
- 6.39.2quin rei novitate perturbetur
A 'quin' clause following the negative main clause 'Nemo est tam fortis' (There is no one so brave), expressing result ('as not to be discomposed by the novelty of the situation').
- 6.39.4quas longius discessisse
The relative pronoun 'quas' (referring to 'legiones') acts as the subject accusative of the infinitive 'discessisse' in the indirect discourse depending on 'cognoverant'.