- 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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With the defection of the Aedui, the war expands, and a general council of Gaul at Bibracte unanimously elects Vercingetorix as commander-in-chief, leaving the Aedui secretly resentful of their lost leadership.
Defectione Aeduorum cognita bellum augetur. Legationes in omnes partes circummittuntur:
When the defection of the Aedui was known, the war increases. Embassies are sent out in all directions:
quantum1 gratia, auctoritate, pecunia valent, ad sollicitandas civitates nituntur;
as far as they are powerful in influence, authority, and money, they strive to win over the states;
nacti obsides, quos Caesar apud eos deposuerat, horum supplicio dubitantes2 territant.
having got possession of the hostages whom Caesar had deposited with them, they terrify those who are wavering by the execution of these.
Petunt a Vercingetorige Aedui ut ad se veniat rationesque belli gerendi communicet.
The Aedui request Vercingetorix to come to them and share his plans for conducting the war.
Re impetrata contendunt ut ipsis summa imperi tradatur, et re in controversiam deducta totius Galliae concilium Bibracte3 indicitur. Eodem conveniunt undique frequentes.
This request being granted, they insist that the chief command should be handed over to them, and when the matter was brought into dispute, a council of all Gaul is summoned to Bibracte. They assemble there from all sides in great numbers.
Multitudinis suffragiis res permittitur: ad unum omnes Vercingetorigem probant imperatorem.
The matter is submitted to the votes of the multitude: all to a man approve Vercingetorix as commander-in-chief.
Ab hoc concilio Remi, Lingones, Treveri afuerunt: illi, quod amicitiam Romanorum sequebantur; Treveri, quod aberant longius et ab Germanis premebantur, quae fuit causa quare4 toto abessent bello et neutris auxilia mitterent.
From this council the Remi, the Lingones, and the Treveri were absent: the former, because they maintained their friendship with the Romans; the Treveri, because they were too far off and were hard pressed by the Germans, which was the reason why they remained absent from the whole war and sent auxiliaries to neither side.
Magno dolore Aedui ferunt se deiectos principatu,5 queruntur fortunae commutationem et Caesaris indulgentiam in se requirunt,6 neque tamen suscepto bello suum consilium ab reliquis separare audent.
With great grief the Aedui bear that they have been cast down from their leadership, they complain of the change in their fortune and miss Caesar’s indulgence toward them; yet, since the war had been undertaken, they do not dare to separate their plans from the rest.
Inviti7 summae spei adulescentes Eporedorix et Viridomarus Vercingetorigi parent.
Unwillingly, Eporedorix and Viridomarus, young men of the greatest expectations, obey Vercingetorix.
- 7.63.2quantum
A relative adverb (adverbial accusative of the neuter pronoun) meaning "to the extent that" or "as much as," modifying valent.
- 7.63.3dubitantes
The present participle of dubito (to hesitate) used substantively in the accusative plural masculine, serving as the direct object of the transitive verb territant.
- 7.63.5Bibracte
The locative (or ablative) case of the neuter noun Bibracte (the chief town of the Aedui), indicating the place where the council is summoned.
- 7.63.7quae fuit causa quare
The relative pronoun quae refers to the entire preceding clause (the Treveri being far off and hard pressed) but agrees in gender and number with the predicate noun causa (feminine singular) by attraction. The following quare clause takes the subjunctive mood (abessent, mitterent).
- 7.63.8se deiectos principatu
Accusative with infinitive construction (with esse omitted after the participle deiectos). se is the subject accusative referring to the Aedui. principatu is an ablative of separation, expressing "deprived of the leadership."
- 7.63.8Caesaris indulgentiam in se requirunt
The verb requiro here means "to feel the loss of" or "to miss" something that was previously enjoyed. It describes the Aedui missing Caesar's past "indulgence" toward them now that they have revolted.
- 7.63.9Inviti
Predicative (adverbial) use of the adjective inviti (unwilling), describing the state of the subjects Eporedorix and Viridomarus ("unwillingly").