- 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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Labienus abandons his attempt to cross the marsh and retreats by night to capture Metiosedum. After crossing the river via a repaired bridge, he advances toward Lutetia, while the enemy burns the town and prepares to face him from the opposite bank.
Labienus primo vineas agere, cratibus atque aggere paludem explere atque iter munire conabatur.
At first Labienus attempted to advance the vineae, to fill up the marsh with hurdles and earth, and to construct a road.
Postquam id difficilius confieri1 animadvertit, silentio e castris tertia vigilia egressus eodem quo venerat itinere Metiosedum pervenit.
After he perceived that this was too difficult to be accomplished, departing silently from the camp at the third watch, he arrived at Metiosedum by the same route by which he had come.
Id est oppidum Senonum in insula Sequanae positum, ut paulo ante de Lutetia diximus. Deprensis navibus circiter quinquaginta celeriterque coniunctis atque eo militibus iniectis et rei novitate perterritis oppidanis,2 quorum magna pars erat ad bellum evocata, sine contentione oppido potitur.
This is a town of the Senones, situated on an island in the Sequana, as we have said a little before of Lutetia. Having seized about fifty ships and quickly fastened them together, and having put soldiers on board them, and the townsmen being terrified by the novelty of the thing, of whom a great part had been called out to the war, he took possession of the town without a struggle.
Refecto ponte, quem superioribus diebus hostes resciderant, exercitum traducit et secundo flumine3 ad Lutetiam iter facere coepit.
Having repaired the bridge, which the enemy had broken down in the preceding days, he led his army across and began to march down the river toward Lutetia.
Hostes re cognita ab eis, qui Metiosedo fugerant, Lutetiam incendi pontesque eius oppidi rescindi iubent; ipsi profecti a palude ad ripas Sequanae e regione Lutetiae contra Labieni castra considunt.
The enemy, having learned of the matter from those who had fled from Metiosedum, ordered Lutetia to be set on fire and the bridges of that town to be broken down; they themselves, having set out from the marsh, took up their position on the banks of the Sequana opposite Lutetia, facing the camp of Labienus.
- 7.58.2difficilius confieri
The comparative difficilius is used as an absolute comparative, meaning 'rather difficult' or 'too difficult.' confieri is the present infinitive of confio ('to be accomplished'), serving as the predicate infinitive in an accusative-and-infinitive construction with id as its subject.
- 7.58.3Deprensis navibus ... perterritis oppidanis
A sequence of four ablative absolutes (Deprensis navibus, coniunctis [navibus], iniectis [militibus], and perterritis oppidanis) leads to the main verb potitur, which governs the ablative oppido. The relative clause quorum ... evocata modifies oppidanis in the final ablative absolute.
- 7.58.5secundo flumine
An idiomatic ablative phrase consisting of the noun flumen and the adjective secundus (derived from sequor, 'to follow'), meaning 'down the river' or 'with the current.'