§1.3.1His rebus adducti et auctoritate Orgetorigis permoti constituerunt ea quae ad proficiscendum pertinerent comparare, iumentorum et carrorum quam maximum numerum coemere, sementes quam maximas facere, ut in itinere copia frumenti suppeteret, cum proximis civitatibus pacem et amicitiam confirmare.
Induced by these circumstances and moved by the authority of Orgetorix, they resolved to prepare those things which pertained to departure, to buy up as great a number of beasts of burden and wagons as possible, to make their sowings as large as possible so that a supply of corn might be ready on the journey, and to confirm peace and friendship with the neighboring states.
§1.3.2Ad eas res conficiendas biennium sibi satis esse duxerunt; in tertium annum profectionem lege confirmant.
For completing these arrangements they considered a biennium to be sufficient for themselves; by law they established their departure for the third year.
§1.3.3Ad eas res conficiendas Orgetorix deligitur.
Orgetorix is chosen to accomplish these things.
Is sibi legationem ad civitates suscipit.
He undertakes for himself the embassy to the states.
In eo itinere persuadet Castico, Catamantaloedis filio, Sequano, cuius pater regnum in Sequanis multos annos obtinuerat et a senatu populi Romani amicus appellatus erat, ut regnum in civitate sua occuparet, quod pater ante habuerit; §1.3.4itemque Dumnorigi Haeduo, fratri Diviciaci, qui eo tempore principatum in civitate obtinebat ac maxime plebi acceptus erat, ut idem conaretur persuadet eique filiam suam in matrimonium dat.
On that journey he persuades Casticus, the son of Catamantaloedes, a Sequanian, whose father had held the sovereign power among the Sequani for many years and had been styled "friend" by the senate of the Roman people, to seize the royal power in his own state, which his father had held before; and likewise he persuades Dumnorix the Haeduan, the brother of Diviciacus, who at that time held the chief power in the state and was highly acceptable to the common people, to attempt the same, and gives him his daughter in marriage.
§1.3.5Perfacile factu esse illis probat conata perficere, propterea quod ipse suae civitatis imperium obtenturus esset: §1.3.6non esse dubium quin totius Galliae plurimum Helvetii possent; se suis copiis suoque exercitu illis regna conciliaturum confirmat.
He proves to them that to accomplish their attempts was very easy to do, because he himself was about to obtain the sovereignty of his own state: he asserts that there was no doubt but that the Helvetii were the most powerful of all Gaul; he reassures them that he with his own resources and his own army would win the kingdoms for them.
§1.3.7Hac oratione adducti inter se fidem et ius iurandum dant et regno occupato per tres potentissimos ac firmissimos populos totius Galliae sese potiri posse sperant.
Induced by this speech, they give a pledge and an oath to each other, and hope that, when the royal power has been seized, they will be able to get possession of the whole of Gaul through the three most powerful and firmest nations.