- 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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Vercingetorix lifts his siege to meet Caesar, who attempts to accept the surrender of Noviodunum; however, the sight of the approaching enemy cavalry causes the townspeople to revolt again, and the Roman soldiers inside narrowly escape.
Vercingetorix, ubi de Caesaris adventu cognovit, oppugnatione destitit atque obviam Caesari proficiscitur.
Vercingetorix, when he learned of Caesar’s arrival, abandoned the siege and set out to meet Caesar.
Ille oppidum Biturigum positum in via Noviodunum oppugnare instituerat.
The latter had resolved to attack Noviodunum, a town of the Bituriges situated on his route.
Quo ex oppido cum legati ad eum venissent oratum1 ut sibi ignosceret suaeque vitae consuleret, ut celeritate reliquas res conficeret, qua2 pleraque erat consecutus, arma conferri, equos produci, obsides dari iubet.
When envoys came to him from this town to beg that he would pardon them and spare their lives, in order that he might complete the remaining matters with the same speed by which he had accomplished most things, he ordered the arms to be collected, the horses to be brought out, and hostages to be given.
Parte iam obsidum tradita, cum reliqua administrarentur, centurionibus et paucis militibus intromissis, qui arma iumentaque conquirerent, equitatus hostium procul visus est, qui agmen Vercingetorigis antecesserat.
When a part of the hostages had already been delivered, while the other matters were being performed, and the centurions and a few soldiers had been sent in to search for arms and pack-animals, the enemy’s cavalry, which had preceded the march of Vercingetorix, was seen in the distance.
Quem simul atque oppidani conspexerunt atque in spem auxili venerunt, clamore sublato arma capere, portas claudere, murum complere coeperunt. Centuriones in oppido, cum ex significatione Gallorum novi aliquid ab eis iniri3 consili4 intellexissent, gladiis destrictis portas occupaverunt suosque omnes incolumes receperunt.
As soon as the townsmen descried them and conceived hope of assistance, raising a shout, they began to take up arms, shut the gates, and man the wall. The centurions in the town, when they understood from the behavior of the Gauls that some new design was being entered into by them, drawing their swords, seized the gates and recovered all their men in safety.
- 7.12.3oratum
The supine in -um of the verb oro ('to beg'), used with the verb of motion venissent to express purpose.
- 7.12.3qua
Feminine singular ablative of the relative pronoun qui, referring to the antecedent celeritate, functioning as an ablative of means ('by which').
- 7.12.6iniri
Present passive infinitive of the verb ineo ('to enter into, undertake'), forming an accusative-and-infinitive construction dependent on intellexissent.
- 7.12.6novi aliquid... consili
Both the neuter adjective novi and the noun consili modify the pronoun aliquid as partitive genitives, meaning 'some new plan'. aliquid serves as the subject accusative of the infinitive iniri.