- 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 calls a council in the evening to issue instructions, sending a portion of his forces and boats upstream with great noise as a diversion, while he himself silently leads the main force of three legions downstream to the designated meeting point.
Sub vesperum consilio convocato cohortatus ut ea quae imperasset diligenter industrieque administrarent, naves, quas Metiosedo deduxerat, singulas equitibus Romanis attribuit, et prima confecta vigilia quattuor milia passuum secundo flumine1 silentio progredi ibique se exspectari2 iubet.
Having called a council near evening and encouraged them to carry out diligently and industriously those things which he should command, he assigned the ships, which he had brought down from Metiosedum, one by one to Roman knights, and, when the first watch was ended, ordered them to proceed silently four miles downstream and to wait for him there.
Quinque cohortes, quas minime firmas ad dimicandum esse existimabat, castris praesidio3 relinquit;
He left five cohorts, which he considered least reliable for fighting, as a guard for the camp;
quinque eiusdem legionis reliquas4 de media nocte cum omnibus impedimentis adverso flumine magno tumultu proficisci imperat.
the remaining five of the same legion he ordered to set out with all the baggage upstream with great noise after midnight.
Conquirit etiam lintres: has magno sonitu remorum incitatas in eandem partem mittit. Ipse post paulo silentio egressus cum tribus legionibus eum locum petit quo naves appelli iusserat.
He also searched for small boats; these, driven on with a great sound of oars, he sent in the same direction. He himself, having gone out silently a little later with three legions, made for the place where he had ordered the ships to be brought to shore.
- 7.60.1secundo flumine
An ablative of route consisting of the noun flumen and the adjective secundus (following), meaning 'along the current' or 'downstream.' This stands in contrast with adverso flumine ('upstream') in section 3.
- 7.60.1se exspectari
An accusative-with-infinitive construction consisting of the reflexive pronoun se (referring to the subject of the main clause, Labienus) and the passive present infinitive exspectari, literally meaning 'that he should be awaited,' which translates to 'he ordered them to wait for him there.'
- 7.60.2castris praesidio
A double dative construction consisting of the dative of purpose praesidio (as a guard) and the dative of reference castris (for the camp).
- 7.60.3quinque eiusdem legionis reliquas
Referring back to the 'five cohorts' left as a guard in section 2, this phrase means 'the remaining five cohorts of the same legion.' It assumes the standard military knowledge that one Roman legion consists of ten cohorts.