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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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After refreshing his army at Avaricum, Caesar plans his next move, but envoys from the Aedui arrive to report that their state is on the brink of civil war due to two rival leaders claiming the sole magistracy, and they entreat him to intervene.
Caesar Avarici1 complures dies commoratus summamque ibi copiam frumenti et reliqui commeatus nactus exercitum ex labore atque inopia refecit.
Caesar, having delayed at Avaricum for several days and having obtained there a very great abundance of grain and other provisions, refreshed his army from their labor and want.
Iam prope hieme confecta cum ipso anni tempore ad gerendum bellum vocaretur et ad hostem proficisci constituisset, sive eum ex paludibus silvisque elicere sive obsidione premere posset, legati ad eum principes Aeduorum veniunt oratum2 ut maxime necessario tempore civitati subveniat:
When, winter being now almost ended, he was called to the prosecution of the war by the season of the year itself and had resolved to march against the enemy, to see whether he could entice them out of the marshes and woods or press them by a siege, the leading men of the Aedui came to him as ambassadors to entreat that he would succor their state at a most necessary time:
summo esse in periculo rem,3 quod, cum singuli magistratus antiquitus creari atque regiam potestatem annum obtinere consuessent, duo magistratum gerant et se uterque eorum legibus creatum esse dicat.
stating that the commonwealth was in the utmost danger, because, whereas single magistrates had by ancient custom been elected and held regal power for a year, two now exercised the magistracy and each of them said that he was elected according to the laws.
Horum esse alterum Convictolitavem, florentem et illustrem adulescentem, alterum Cotum, antiquissima familia natum atque ipsum hominem summae potentiae et magnae cognationis, cuius frater Valetiacus proximo anno eundem magistratum gesserit.
Of these, one was Convictolitavis, an influential and illustrious youth; the other was Cotus, born of a very ancient family and himself a man of the greatest influence and of powerful connections, whose brother Valetiacus had held the same magistracy in the previous year.
Civitatem esse omnem in armis; divisum senatum, divisum populum, suas cuiusque eorum clientelas. Quod si diutius alatur controversia, fore uti pars cum parte civitatis confligat.4 Id ne accidat, positum in eius diligentia atque auctoritate.
The whole state was in arms; the senate was divided, the people divided, and each of them had his own clients. If the dispute should be kept up any longer, the result would be that one part of the state would clash with the other. That this should not happen depended on his activity and authority.
- 7.32.1Avarici
The locative case of the second-declension noun Avaricum, used for names of towns and small islands to express "at" or "in" a place.
- 7.32.2oratum
The accusative of the supine (former supine) of the verb oro, used with the verb of motion veniunt to express purpose ("to entreat").
- 7.32.3summo esse in periculo rem
The main clause of the indirect discourse (oratio obliqua) introduced by the preceding oratum. The accusative rem is the subject and the present infinitive esse is the verb, expressing the substance of the envoys' statement.
- 7.32.5fore uti pars cum parte civitatis confligat
The construction fore ut (where fore is equivalent to futurum esse) followed by the present subjunctive (confligat), used as a substitute for the future infinitive in indirect discourse to express a future result ("that one part of the state would clash").