 102. A Parley with the Enemy |
104. The Advice of the Enemy is Taken  |
Q. Sabīnus et L.[1] Cotta lēgātī, rē repentīnā permōtī, ea verba, etsī ab hoste dicta erant, tamen nōn neglegenda[2] esse exīstimābant; itaque, cōnsiliō[3] convocātō, quid optimum factū[4] esset diū disputātum est.
Tribūnī[5] centuriōnēsque complūrēs nihil sibi temerē agendum, neque ex hībernīs iniussū Caesaris discēdendum iūdicābant; cum enim castra mūnītissima essent, crēdēbant sē Germānīs facile resistere posse, dōnec Caesar cum legiōnibus subsidiō venīret. Sabīnus autem, veritus nē Gallī cum Germānīs sē coniungerent, statim discēdendum cēnsuit; sciēbat enim Germānīs magnō dolōrī fuisse victōriās superiōrēs Rōmānōrum, neque arbitrābātur Gallōs, quī tot contumēliās ā Rōmānīs accēperant, sē cum hoste quōvīs coniungere dubitātūrōs.
Ōrātiōne in utramque partem[6] habitā, cum Cotta sententiae[7] collēgae[8] suī ācriter resisteret, Sabīnus postrēmō īrātus “Fiat[9],” inquit, “ut vōbīs vidētur; ego nōn is sum, quī[10] mortis perīculō magnopere terrear.”
- ↑ L.: i.e. Lūcius, lēgātī: cf. l. 12.
- ↑ neglegenda: neglegō, 3, neglēxī, neglēctus: disregard, or ignore.
- ↑ cōnsiliō: n, council of war.
- ↑ factū: supine, to do, esset: subj. in indirect question.
- ↑ tribūnī: m, Of these there were six for each legion; in rank they stood next to the legion commander., (military) tribunes.
- ↑ in utramque partem: freely, pro and con, cum . . . resisteret: translate by a partic. phrase.
- ↑ sententiae: f, for syntax, cf. Germānīs, l. 3.
- ↑ collēgae: collēga, -ae: m, lit. colleague; here, brother officer, (namely, Sabinus).
- ↑ fiat: let it be, ut . . . vidētur: as (it) seems best.
- ↑ is . . . quī: cf. eōs . . . quī, p. 125, l. 8.