- 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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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-05
Upon arriving in Italy, Caesar learns that the two legions he returned were handed over to Pompey and kept in Italy, but he decides to endure all as long as there is hope for a peaceful legal resolution.
Quo cum venisset, cognoscit per C. Marcellum consulem legiones duas ab se remissas, quae ex senatus consulto deberent1 ad Parthicum bellum duci, Cn. Pompeio traditas atque in Italia retentas esse.
When he had arrived there, he learned that the two legions sent back by him, which in accordance with the decree of the senate ought to have been led to the Parthian war, had been delivered to Gnaeus Pompey through the consul Gaius Marcellus and retained in Italy.
Hoc facto quamquam nulli2 erat dubium, quidnam contra Caesarem pararetur,3 tamen Caesar omnia patienda esse statuit, quoad sibi spes aliqua relinqueretur iure potius disceptandi4 quam belli gerendi. Contendit5
Although by this act there was no doubt to anyone as to what was being prepared against Caesar, yet Caesar decided that everything had to be endured, as long as some hope was left to him of deciding the matter by law rather than of waging war. Contendit He hastened
- 8.55.1deberent
The verb is in the subjunctive mood (imperfect tense) because it is a subordinate clause within indirect speech (introduced by the main verb cognoscit).
- 8.55.2nulli
Dative of possessor used with the verb of existence esse (erat), meaning literally "there was to no one" (i.e., "no one had").
- 8.55.2pararetur
The verb is in the subjunctive mood (imperfect) because it is the verb of an indirect question introduced by the interrogative word quidnam.
- 8.55.2disceptandi
A gerund in the genitive case, modifying spes (hope), and contrasted with the gerundive construction belli gerendi (also in the genitive) by quam.
- 8.55.2Contendit
This is the perfect tense of an intransitive verb meaning "to hasten" or "to march rapidly," serving as the main verb of the sentence (of which only the beginning is included in this chunk).