- 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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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-01
Introducing the influential Aeduan youths Eporedorix and Viridomarus, including their rivalry. Upon discovering Litaviccus's conspiracy, Eporedorix reports it to Caesar at midnight, urging him to prevent the defection of their state.
Eporedorix Aeduus, summo loco natus adulescens et summae domi potentiae,1 et una Viridomarus, pari aetate et gratia, sed genere dispari, quem Caesar ab Diviciaco sibi traditum2 ex humili loco ad summam dignitatem perduxerat, in equitum numero convenerant nominatim ab eo evocati.
Eporedorix the Aeduan, a young man born of the highest rank and of the greatest influence at home, and along with him Viridomarus, of equal age and influence, but of unequal birth, whom Caesar, after he had been handed over to him by Diviciacus, had raised from a humble position to the highest dignity, had assembled in the number of the cavalry, having been summoned by him by name.
His erat inter se de principatu contentio, et in illa magistratuum controversia alter pro Convictolitavi, alter pro Coto summis opibus pugnaverant.
These men had a rivalry between themselves for the leadership, and in that dispute over the magistracy, the one had fought with all his might for Convictolitavis, the other for Cotus.
Ex eis Eporedorix cognito Litavicci consilio media fere nocte rem ad Caesarem defert; orat ne patiatur civitatem pravis adulescentium consiliis ab amicitia populi Romani deficere; quod futurum provideat,3 si se tot hominum milia cum hostibus coniunxerint, quorum salutem4 neque propinqui neglegere, neque civitas levi momento aestimare posset.
From among them, Eporedorix, having learned of Litaviccus’s plan, reports the matter to Caesar about midnight; he begs him not to suffer the state to defect from the friendship of the Roman people through the depraved counsels of these young men; he urges him to foresee what would happen if so many thousands of men should join themselves with the enemy, whose safety neither their kinsmen could neglect, nor the state regard as of light importance.
- 7.39.1summae domi potentiae
Genitive of quality. domi is a locative meaning 'at home' or 'in their own state'.
- 7.39.1ab Diviciaco sibi traditum
The perfect passive participle traditum agrees with quem (Viridomarus). sibi refers to the subject of the relative clause, Caesar (indirect reflexive).
- 7.39.3quod futurum provideat
The relative pronoun quod functions as a connecting relative ('and this'), in the accusative neuter singular, acting as the subject accusative of the future infinitive futurum (with esse omitted). provideat is a subjunctive of command in indirect discourse, dependent on orat.
- 7.39.3quorum salutem
The antecedent of the relative pronoun quorum is tot hominum milia. posset is in the imperfect subjunctive in a relative clause in indirect discourse, following the historical presents defert and orat (sequence of tenses).