§5.54.1At Caesar principibus cuiusque civitatis ad se evocatis alias territando, cum se scire quae fierent denuntiaret, alias cohortando magnam partem Galliae in officio tenuit.
But Caesar, having summoned the chiefs of each state to him, kept a great part of Gaul in its allegiance, at one time by terrifying them, when he declared that he knew what was going on, at another time by encouraging them.
§5.54.2Tamen Senones, quae est civitas in primis firma et magnae inter Gallos auctoritatis, Cavarinum, quem Caesar apud eos regem constituerat, cuius frater Moritasgus adventu in Galliam Caesaris cuiusque maiores regnum obtinuerant, interficere publico consilio conati, cum ille praesensisset ac profugisset, usque ad fines insecuti §5.54.3regno domoque expulerunt et, missis ad Caesarem satisfaciendi causa legatis, cum is omnem ad se senatum venire iussisset, dicto audientes non fuerunt.
Nevertheless, the Senones, which is a state particularly powerful and of great authority among the Gauls, having attempted by a public resolution to put to death Cavarinus, whom Caesar had appointed king among them, whose brother Moritasgus and whose ancestors had held the kingdom before the arrival of Caesar in Gaul, pursued him even to the borders when he had suspected their design and fled; they expelled him from his kingdom and home, and, though they sent ambassadors to Caesar for the purpose of making excuses, when he ordered their entire senate to come to him, they were not obedient to his command.
§5.54.4Ac tantum apud homines barbaros valuit esse aliquos repertos principes inferendi belli tantamque omnibus voluntatum commutationem attulit, ut praeter Aeduos et Remos, quos praecipuo semper honore Caesar habuit, alteros pro vetere ac perpetua erga populum Romanum fide, alteros pro recentibus Gallici belli officiis, nulla fere civitas fuerit non suspecta nobis.
And so much influence did the fact that some had been found to be the leaders in initiating war have among these barbarous people, and such a great change of feeling did it bring to all, that, except for the Aedui and the Remi, whom Caesar always held in especial honor, the former for their ancient and unbroken fidelity toward the Roman people, the latter for their recent services in the Gallic war, there was scarcely any state that was not suspected by us.
§5.54.5Idque adeo haud scio mirandumne sit, cum compluribus aliis de causis, tum maxime quod ei, qui virtute belli omnibus gentibus praeferebantur, tantum se eius opinionis deperdidisse ut a populo Romano imperia perferrent gravissime dolebant.
And indeed, I do not know whether this is to be wondered at, both for several other reasons, and especially because those who were preferred to all nations in valor of war, were grieving most bitterly that they had lost so much of that reputation that they had to endure the commands of the Roman people.