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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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Upon receiving news of the Aedui's betrayal, Caesar immediately marches out to intercept them. By presenting the living Aeduan leaders, who were rumored to have been killed, he dispels the soldiers' misunderstanding, prompting their surrender and forcing the instigator Litaviccus to flee.
Magna adfectus sollicitudine hoc nuntio Caesar, quod semper Aeduorum civitati praecipue indulserat, nulla interposita dubitatione legiones expeditas quattuor equitatumque omnem ex castris educit;
Caesar, deeply affected by this news, since he had always shown special favor to the state of the Aedui, led out from the camp four light-armed legions and all the cavalry without any hesitation.
nec fuit spatium tali tempore ad contrahenda castra, quod res posita in celeritate videbatur; Gaium Fabium legatum cum legionibus duabus castris praesidio1 relinquit.
Nor, at such a juncture, was there time to contract the camp, because the issue seemed to depend on celerity; he left Gaius Fabius, his lieutenant, with two legions as a guard for the camp.
Fratres Litavicci cum comprehendi iussisset, paulo ante reperit ad hostes fugisse.
When he had ordered the brothers of Litaviccus to be arrested, he found that they had fled to the enemy a short time before.
Adhortatus milites, ne necessario tempore2 itineris labore permoveantur, cupidissimis omnibus progressus milia passuum XXV agmen Aeduorum conspicatus immisso equitatu iter eorum moratur atque impedit interdicitque omnibus ne quemquam interficiant. Eporedorigem et Viridomarum, quos illi interfectos existimabant, inter equites versari suosque appellare iubet.
Having encouraged his soldiers not to be dispirited by the labor of the march at a critical time, while all were most eager, he advanced twenty-five miles, and descrying the army of the Aedui, he sent in his cavalry and delayed and impeded their march, and forbade everyone to kill anyone. He ordered Eporedorix and Viridomarus, whom they believed to have been put to death, to move about among the cavalry and to call upon their people.
His cognitis et Litavicci fraude perspecta Aedui manus tendere, deditionem significare et proiectis armis mortem deprecari incipiunt.
When these things were made known and the deceit of Litaviccus was perceived, the Aedui began to stretch out their hands, to signal surrender, and, throwing down their arms, to beg for their lives.
Litaviccus cum suis clientibus, quibus more Gallorum nefas est etiam in extrema fortuna deserere patronos,3 Gergoviam profugit.
Litaviccus, with his vassals, whom, according to the custom of the Gauls, it is a crime to desert their patrons even in extreme misfortune, fled to Gergovia.
- 7.40.2castris praesidio
A classic example of the 'double dative' construction, consisting of castris (dative of reference/direction, 'for the camp') and praesidio (dative of purpose, 'as a guard').
- 7.40.4necessario tempore
Ablative of time or attendant circumstance, meaning 'at a critical time' or 'in a pressing crisis.' Here necessarius carries the strong nuance of 'critical,' 'unavoidable,' or 'urgent.'
- 7.40.7quibus more Gallorum nefas est etiam in extrema fortuna deserere patronos
The relative pronoun quibus is a dative of reference or agent ('for whom') within the relative clause. The subject of the impersonal expression nefas est ('it is a sin/sacrilege') is the infinitive phrase deserere patronos ('to desert their patrons').