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- 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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Caesar, seeing Gaul pacified, distributes his legions into various regions and sends the fifteenth legion to protect Cisalpine Gaul. He personally sets out to devastate the territory of Ambiorix to prevent his return.
Bellicosissimis gentibus devictis Caesar, cum videret nullam iam esse civitatem quae bellum pararet quo sibi resisteret,1 sed nonnullos ex oppidis demigrare, ex agris diffugere ad praesens imperium evitandum, plures in partes exercitum dimittere constituit.
With the most warlike nations subdued, Caesar, seeing that there was now no state preparing war to resist him, but that some were departing from the towns and fleeing from the fields to avoid the present rule, resolved to distribute the army into more districts.
M. Antonium quaestorem cum legione duodecima sibi coniungit. C. Fabium legatum cum cohortibus XXV mittit in diversissimam partem Galliae, quod ibi quasdam civitates in armis esse audiebat neque C. Caninium Rebilum legatum, qui in illis regionibus erat, satis firmas duas legiones habere existimabat.
He joins Marcus Antonius the quaestor to himself with the twelfth legion. He sends Gaius Fabius the lieutenant with twenty-five cohorts into the most distant part of Gaul, because he heard that certain states there were in arms, and he did not think that Gaius Caninius Rebilus the lieutenant, who was in those regions, had two sufficiently strong legions.
Titum Labienum ad se evocat; legionem autem XV, quae cum eo fuerat in hibernis, in togatam Galliam2 mittit ad colonias civium Romanorum tuendas, ne quod simile incommodum accideret decursione barbarorum ac superiore aestate Tergestinis acciderat, qui repentino latrocinio atque impetu illorum erant oppressi.
He summons Titus Labienus to himself; but the fifteenth legion, which had been with him in winter quarters, he sends into Togate Gaul to protect the colonies of Roman citizens, lest any similar misfortune should happen from an incursion of the barbarians as had happened to the people of Tergeste the previous summer, who had been overwhelmed by their sudden raid and attack.
Ipse ad vastandos depopulandosque fines Ambiorigis proficiscitur; quem perterritum ac fugientem cum redigi posse in suam potestatem desperasset,3 proximum suae dignitatis esse ducebat, adeo fines eius vastare4 civibus, aedificiis, pecore, ut odio suorum Ambiorix, si quos fortuna reliquos fecisset, nullum reditum propter tantas calamitates haberet in civitatem.
He himself sets out to devastate and depopulate the territory of Ambiorix; and since he despaired of being able to reduce him, terrified and fleeing, under his power, he judged that the thing closest to his dignity was to so thoroughly strip his lands of citizens, buildings, and cattle, that Ambiorix, because of the hatred of his people, if fortune had left any remaining, should have no return into his state on account of such great calamities.
- 8.24.1quo sibi resisteret
A subjunctive clause introduced by the ablative of the relative pronoun quo (= ut eo), with bellum as its antecedent, expressing purpose or characteristic ('whereby to resist him').
- 8.24.3togatam Galliam
Literally 'toga-clad Gaul', a geographical and political term for Gallia Cisalpina (Cisalpine Gaul), so called because of its advanced Romanization and the widespread wearing of the Roman toga among its inhabitants.
- 8.24.4quem perterritum ac fugientem cum... desperasset
quem is a connecting relative referring to Ambiorix. It functions as the subject accusative of redigi posse within the cum-clause.
- 8.24.4proximum suae dignitatis esse ducebat, adeo fines eius vastare
An accusative with infinitive construction acting as the object of ducebat ('he judged'). proximum suae dignitatis is the predicate of esse, and the infinitive vastare serves as the subject of this infinitive clause ('that to devastate his territory... was closest to his dignity').