hostem sibi timendum esse[1], sī modo[2] omnēs idem probārent; in dissēnsiōne[3] autem nūllam esse spem.
Cum iam ad mediam noctem disputātum esset, tum[4] dēmum Sabīnī sententia superāvit, ac māne castra mōtum īrī[5] mīlitibus prōnūntiātum est. Cōnsūmpta est vigiliīs[6] reliqua pars noctis, cum mīlitēs bona colligerent[7] sua, nec satis scīrent quid in hībernīs relinquendum[8], aut quid sēcum portandum esset. Deinde prīmā lūce ē castrīs longissimō[9] agmine maximīsque impedimentīs profectī sunt; plērīque enim nōn suspicābantur Ambiorīgem omnia ea, quae dē Germānōrum adventū dīxerat, mentītum esse, cum spērāret[10] ita sē Rōmānōs ex hībernīs ēlicere posse.
At interim hostēs, quī ex nocturnō strepitū intellēxerant lēgātōs cōnstituisse cōnfēstim castra movēre, in silvās paulum sē recēperant īnsidiīsque locō idōneō collocātīs adventum Rōmānōrum cupidē exspectābant.
Ita factum est ut, cum maior pars agminis Rōmānōrum in magnam vallem dēscendisset, Gallī subitō ē latebrīs
- ↑ timendum esse: need be feared, a common force of the gerundive, esp. in negative phrases. The indirect discourse at this point is due to the idea of saying (dīxērunt) implied in hortātī sunt, p. 127, l. 15.
- ↑ modo: consult the Vocab. under sī, idem probārent: i.e. should agree when one plan; lit. what?.
- ↑ dissēnsiōne: dissēnsiō, -ōnis: f, disagreement.
- ↑ tum: what part of the verb?.
- ↑ mōtum īrī: what part of the verb?.
- ↑ vigiliīs: f, we would say “in wakefulness.” What is another meaning of this word?.
- ↑ colligerent: colligō, 3, -lēgī, -lēctus: Translate this clause by a partic. phrase., get together.
- ↑ relinquendum: sc. esset; for mood, cf. esset, p. 126, l. 17.
- ↑ longissimō: and, therefore, straggling.
- ↑ cum spērāret: cf. the cum-clause in l. 6.
