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desperata salute, ad unum omnes se ipsl interfecerunt. Pauci, qui paulo ante e proelio effugerant, per silvas incertls
turn,
ad T. Labienum legatum in hiberna pervenerunt, atque eum de rebus gestls fecerunt certiorem.
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LESSON
1
08
The Gauls attack a Second Camp 5
Hac
Ambiorix statim cum equitatu
victoria sublatus,
in
Aduatucos, qui erant eius regno fmitimi, profectus est; neque noctem neque diem intermisit, peditatumque se iussit subsequi.
Re demonstrate Aduatuclsque 10
concitatls, postero die in
Nervios pervenit, eosque hortatus est, ne sul in perpetuum llberandl occasionem dlmitterent. Interfectos esse legates
duo Romanes magnamque partem exercitus interisse docuit facillimeque oppriml posse earn quoque legionem, quae cum Q. Cicerone in fmibus eorum hiemaret. Qua dratione
15
facile NerviTs persuasit. x.
spair
de-
desperata: of.
despero, i, se ipsl cf. ipse
.
.
.
1. 2. The men probably ran upon one another's swords. T. Labienum: in con3. ad
drew
se, p. 8,
nection with in hiberna, this phrase may conveniently be rendered by a genitive. For the location of Labienus' camp, see the map on p. 124. 4.
freely, 5.
gestis:
done; translate
lit.
using a relative clause. sublatus:
from
tollo.
Aduatucos
intermisit:
omit in transla-
concitatls: concito, sul gen. pi.
9.
10.
n. ing
i
,
stir up.
liberandi:
form from
its
gerundive, sui.
tak-
Render the
" to." gen. (freely) 13. facillimeque: as governing verb for this clause, dixit may be supplied.
another of 14. Q. Cicerone: Caesar's lieutenants (see the map).
and
edrum i.e. Nerviorum. hiemaret for mood, cf. admoveantur,
for
this
other peoples mentioned, see again the nnap on p. 124. 7.
in:
into the territory of. 6.
se
rein.
tion.
sc.
cursum,
i.e.
p. 61, 15.
1.
14.
Nerviis
over the Neruii ;
persuasit: lit.
what?
won
