- 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 plan approved, Commius fled to Germany, while the remaining Bellovaci sent envoys to Caesar to sue for peace, admitting heavy losses but presenting the death of the instigator Correus as a relief.
Hoc omnibus probato consilio Commius Atrebas ad eos confugit Germanos, a quibus ad id bellum auxilia mutuatus erat.
This plan being approved by all, Commius the Atrebatian fled to those Germans from whom he had borrowed auxiliaries for that war.
Ceteri e vestigio mittunt ad Caesarem legatos petuntque, ut ea poena sit contentus hostium, quam1 si sine dimicatione inferre integris posset, pro sua clementia atque humanitate numquam profecto esset illaturus.
The rest immediately send ambassadors to Caesar and beg that he would be satisfied with that punishment of his enemies, which, even if he could have inflicted it without a battle upon them while they were still unharmed, he would certainly never have inflicted in accordance with his clemency and humanity.
Adflictas opes equestri proelio Bellovacorum esse; delectorum peditum multa milia interisse, vix refugisse nuntios caedis.
They pleaded that the power of the Bellovaci had been shattered by the cavalry battle; that many thousands of their select infantry had perished, and that scarcely any messengers of the slaughter had escaped.
Tamen magnum ut in tanta calamitate2 Bellovacos eo proelio commodum esse consecutos, quod Correus, auctor belli, concitator multitudinis, esset interfectus. Numquam enim senatum tantum in civitate illo vivo3 quantum imperitam plebem potuisse.
Nevertheless, they said that the Bellovaci had obtained a great advantage in that battle, as far as was possible in so great a calamity, in that Correus, the author of the war and exciter of the multitude, had been slain; for during his lifetime, the senate had never been able to possess as much power in the state as the ignorant populace.
- 8.21.2ut ea poena sit contentus hostium, quam...
ea poena is the antecedent of the relative pronoun quam. hostium (of the enemy, i.e., of themselves) modifies poena. The conditional clause si... posset... esset illaturus is in the subjunctive due to subordinate clause in indirect speech (within the ut-clause), expressing a subjunctive counterfactual notion ('such punishment as he would never have inflicted... even if he could have').
- 8.21.4ut in tanta calamitate
ut is used in a restrictive or concessive sense ('considering...', 'as in...'), meaning 'considering such a great calamity' or 'as far as was possible in such a great disaster', modifying the phrase magnum commodum.
- 8.21.4illo vivo
An ablative absolute construction consisting of the pronoun illo (referring to Correus) and the adjective vivo, meaning 'while he was alive' or 'during his lifetime' without a participle.