- 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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After the subjugation of all Gaul, despite Caesar's wish to rest his troops, several Gauls planned simultaneous rebellions to divide and weaken the Roman forces, believing this strategy was their only path to liberty.
Omni Gallia devicta Caesar cum a superiore aestate nullum bellandi tempus intermisisset militesque hibernorum quiete reficere a tantis laboribus vellet, complures eodem tempore civitates renovare belli consilia nuntiabantur coniurationesque facere.1
All Gaul having been subdued, although Caesar had intermitted no time of warring since the preceding summer, and wished to recruit his soldiers from such great labors by the rest of winter quarters, several states at the same time were reported to be renewing their plans of war and forming conspiracies.
Cuius rei verisimilis causa adferebatur, quod Gallis omnibus cognitum esset neque ulla multitudine in unum locum coacta resisti posse Romanis,2 nec, si diversa bella complures eodem tempore intulissent civitates, satis auxili aut spati aut copiarum habiturum exercitum populi Romani ad omnia persequenda; non esse autem alicui civitati sortem incommodi recusandam,3 si tali mora reliquae possent se vindicare in libertatem.
A plausible reason for this was offered: because it was known to all the Gauls that they could not resist the Romans even if any multitude were collected into one place, but that if several states brought diverse wars at the same time, the army of the Roman people would not have enough help, time, or forces to pursue them all; moreover, that the lot of hardship ought not to be refused by any state, if by such a delay the remaining states could vindicate themselves into liberty.
- 8.1.1complures eodem tempore civitates renovare belli consilia nuntiabantur coniurationesque facere
The verb nuntiabantur is used in the personal construction with complures civitates as its nominative subject. Consequently, the infinitives renovare and facere share this same subject in the nominative case.
- 8.1.2resisti posse Romanis
This is an impersonal passive construction using the passive infinitive resisti of the intransitive verb resistere. Romanis is the dative case governed by resistere. Combined with the negative neque, it means 'that resistance could not be made to the Romans' (i.e., they could not resist the Romans).
- 8.1.2non esse autem alicui civitati sortem incommodi recusandam
The gerundive recusandam [esse] expresses necessity or obligation. The dative alicui civitati is a dative of agent, indicating the person by whom the action must be performed: 'the lot of hardship ought not to be refused by any state.'