- 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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To prevent an internal conflict among the Aedui, Caesar personally went to Decetia, respecting their laws, and summoned the rival candidates, Cotus and Convictolitavis. After hearing the case, he forced Cotus, who was illegally elected, to resign, and confirmed Convictolitavis, who was elected through proper customary procedures, in his office.
Caesar, etsi a bello atque hoste discedere detrimentosum esse existimabat, tamen non ignorans quanta ex dissensionibus incommoda oriri consuessent, ne tanta et tam coniuncta populo Romano civitas, quam ipse semper aluisset omnibusque rebus ornasset, ad vim atque arma descenderet, atque ea pars quae minus sibi confideret auxilia a Vercingetorige arcesseret, huic rei praevertendum1 existimavit et, quod legibus Aeduorum eis, qui summum magistratum obtinerent, excedere ex finibus non liceret, ne quid de iure aut de legibus eorum deminuisse videretur, ipse in Aeduos proficisci statuit senatumque omnem et quos inter2 controversia esset ad se Decetiam evocavit.
Caesar, although he thought it detrimental to depart from the war and the enemy, yet, not being ignorant of how great disadvantages were accustomed to arise from dissensions, in order that a state so great and so closely connected with the Roman people, which he himself had always cherished and distinguished in every way, should not descend to violence and arms, and that the party which had less confidence in itself should not summon aid from Vercingetorix, thought that he must give this matter his immediate attention; and, because by the laws of the Aedui it was not permitted for those who held the highest magistracy to depart from their borders, that he might not appear to have infringed upon any of their rights or laws, he resolved to set out in person to the Aedui, and summoned to himself at Decetia all the senate and those between whom the dispute was.
Cum prope omnis civitas eo convenisset, docereturque paucis clam convocatis alio loco, alio tempore atque oportuerit3 fratrem a fratre renuntiatum, cum leges duo ex una familia vivo utroque non solum magistratus creari vetarent, sed etiam in senatu esse prohiberent, Cotum imperium deponere coegit, Convictolitavem, qui per sacerdotes more civitatis intermissis magistratibus4 esset creatus, potestatem obtinere iussit.
When almost the entire state had assembled there, and it was shown to him that, a few having been secretly convoked, a brother had been declared elected by a brother at a different place and a different time than was proper, whereas the laws forbade not only that two from one family should be elected magistrates while both were alive, but even that they should be in the senate, he compelled Cotus to resign his power, and, ordered Convictolitavis, who had been elected by the priests according to the custom of the state when the magistrates were interrupted, to hold the office.
- 7.33.2huic rei praevertendum
An impersonal passive periphrastic construction praevertendum [esse]. huic rei is not the dative of agent, but the dative governed by the verb praeverto (to attend to first, give precedence to). The dative of agent sibi (referring to Caesar) is omitted.
- 7.33.2quos inter
An instance of anastrophe (inversion of word order), where the preposition inter is placed after the relative pronoun quos which it governs. The regular order would be inter quos (between whom).
- 7.33.3alio loco, alio tempore atque oportuerit
The ablative alio from the adjective alius (other, different) is used correlatively with the comparative conjunction atque (than/as), meaning "at a different place and a different time than was proper."
- 7.33.4intermissis magistratibus
An ablative absolute construction (noun with participle) with the perfect participle intermissis. It describes the circumstance "the magistracies having been interrupted" or "when there was an interval without magistrates."