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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 invades the territory of the Bellovaci and obtains information from captives regarding their campsite, allied tribes, leaders, and military plans.
His copiis coactis ad Bellovacos proficiscitur castrisque in eorum finibus positis equitum turmas dimittit in omnes partes ad aliquos excipiendos ex quibus hostium consilia cognosceret.1
Having assembled these forces, he set out for the territory of the Bellovaci, and after pitching camp in their territory, he sent out troops of cavalry in all directions to capture some from whom he might learn the plans of the enemy.
Equites officio functi renuntiant paucos in aedificiis esse inventos, atque hos, non qui agrorum colendorum causa remansissent (namque esse undique diligenter demigratum),2 sed qui speculandi causa essent remissi.
The cavalry, having performed their duty, reported back that only a few had been found in the buildings, and that these had remained not for the sake of tilling the fields (for evacuation had been diligently carried out everywhere), but had been sent back for the purpose of scouting.
A quibus cum quaereret Caesar quo loco multitudo esset Bellovacorum quodve esset consilium eorum, inveniebat Bellovacos omnes qui arma ferre possent in unum locum convenisse, itemque Ambianos, Aulercos, Caletos, Veliocasses, Atrebatas; locum castris excelsum in silva circumdata palude delegisse, impedimenta omnia in ulteriores silvas contulisse.
When Caesar inquired of them where the multitude of the Bellovaci was and what their plan was, he found out that all the Bellovaci who could bear arms had assembled in one place, and likewise the Ambiani, Aulerci, Caleti, Veliocasses, and Atrebates; and that they had chosen an elevated place for their camp in a forest surrounded by a marsh, and had conveyed all their baggage into the further forests.
Complures esse principes belli auctores, sed multitudinem maxime Correo obtemperare, quod ei summo esse odio3 nomen populi Romani intellexissent.
He learned that there were several leaders who were instigators of the war, but that the multitude obeyed Correus most of all, because they understood that the name of the Roman people was held by him in the greatest hatred.
Paucis ante diebus ex his castris Atrebatem Commium discessisse ad auxilia Germanorum adducenda; quorum et vicinitas propinqua et multitudo esset infinita.
A few days before, Commius the Atrebatian had departed from this camp to bring auxiliary forces of the Germans, whose proximity was close and whose numbers were infinite.
Constituisse autem Bellovacos omnium principum consensu, summa plebis cupiditate, si, ut diceretur, Caesar cum tribus legionibus veniret, offerre se ad dimicandum, ne miseriore ac duriore postea condicione cum toto exercitu decertare cogerentur;
They had decided, moreover, by the consensus of all the leaders and with the greatest eagerness of the common people, that if Caesar should come with three legions, as was rumored, they would offer themselves for battle, lest they should be forced to fight later under more miserable and harder conditions with his entire army;
si maiores copias adduceret, in eo loco permanere quem delegissent, pabulatione autem, quae propter anni tempus cum exigua tum disiecta esset, et frumentatione et reliquo commeatu ex insidiis prohibere Romanos.
but if he should bring larger forces, they would remain in the place they had chosen, and by ambuscades prevent the Romans from foraging (which owing to the season of the year was both scanty and scattered), grain-gathering, and other supplies.
- 8.7.1cognosceret
The subjunctive mood (imperfect) is used in the relative clause introduced by quibus (referring to aliquos) to express purpose ("in order that he might learn the plans of the enemy from them").
- 8.7.2esse undique diligenter demigratum
In the causal clause embedded in indirect speech, the passive infinitive of the intransitive verb demigro (to emigrate, depart) is used impersonally: esse demigratum, meaning "that evacuation had been carried out."
- 8.7.5ei summo esse odio
An instance of the "double dative" construction, where ei (dative of reference/interest) and summo odio (dative of purpose/service) are used with the copula esse, meaning "was held by him in the greatest hatred" (literally, "was for a greatest hatred to him").
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