fectiōnem fēcisset[1], hostium impetus sustinērī nōn posset, litterās Caesarī remīsit, quibus[2] ostendit quantum esset[3] perīculum docuitque omnēs peditātūs equitātūsque cōpiās Trēverōrum[4] tria mīlia passuum ab suīs castrīs cōnsēdisse.
Caesar, cōnsiliō eius probātō, etsī opīniōne[5] trium legiōnum dēiectus ad duās redierat[6], omnem tamen commūnis salūtis spem in celeritāte pōnēbat. Vēnit[7] igitur magnīs itineribus in Nerviōrum fīnēs. Ibi ex captīvīs[8] cōgnōscit quae[9] in Cicerōnis hībernīs gerantur, quantōque in perīculō rēs sit.
Itaque cuidam ex[10] equitibus Gallīs[11] Caesar magnīs praemiīs persuāsit, ut ad Cicerōnem epistulam[12] dēferret. Hanc Graecīs litterīs scrīptam mīsit, nē Gallō interceptō[13] nostra cōnsilia ab hostibus cōgnōscerentur. Hominī imperāvit ut, sī hīberna intrāre nōn posset, trāgulam cum epistulā ad āmentum[14] dēligātā[15] intrā mūnītiōnēs abiceret. In epistulā scrīpsit sē cum legiōnibus profectum celeriter adfore[16]; Cicerōnem hortātus est ut prīstinam virtūtem retinēret.
- ↑ fēcisset: cf. exspectāssent, p. 104, l. 18.
- ↑ quibus: cf. p. 38, l. 16.
- ↑ esset: why subjunctive?.
- ↑ Trēverōrum: belonging to the Trēverī, suīs: his.
- ↑ opīniōne: opīniō, -ōnis: f, cf. the similar phrase, p. 125, l. 5 ff., expectation.
- ↑ redierat: i.e. had been reduced.
- ↑ Vēnit: What tense? (note the ē), magnīs itineribus: i.e. forced marches.
- ↑ captīvīs: m, i.e. Gauls whom he had arrested as he marched.
- ↑ quae: n, neut. interrogative; translate as sing. (quid).
- ↑ ex: of.
- ↑ Gallīs: with adj. force. The cavalry of the Roman army was recruited largely from foreign nations (cf. the note on legiō, p. 125, l. 14)..
- ↑ epistulam: epistula, -ae: f, letter.
- ↑ Gallō interceptō: translate by a conditional clause.
- ↑ āmentum: āmentum, -ī: n, strap.
- ↑ dēligātā: dēligō, 1: fasten.
- ↑ adfore: i.e. adfutūrum esse.
