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LESSON 126
Though disconcerted for the time being by Caesar's decisive victory over the Nervii (Lesson 115), the Treveri subsequently more than once threatened the winter camp of Labienus (cf. Lessons 112 and 116, and see the map on page 124).
Dum haec[1] ā Caesare geruntur, Trēverī magnīs coāctīs peditātūs equitātūsque cōpiīs Labiēnum cum[2] ūnā legiōne, quae in eōrum fīnibus hiemābat, adorīrī parābant; iamque ab eō nōn longius bīduī viā[3] aberant, cum duās vēnisse legiōnēs missū[4] Caesaris cōgnōscunt. Positīs castrīs ā mīlibus passuum xv, auxilia Germānōrum exspectāre cōnstituunt.
Labiēnus, hostium cōgnitō cōnsiliō, spērāns temeritāte[5] eōrum[6] fore aliquam dīmicandī facultātem, praesidiō[7] quīnque
- ↑ haec: n, i.e. events mentioned in the narrative from which this extract is taken.
- ↑ cum: translate “and.”, ūnā: the one.
- ↑ viā: f, than a journey; abl. with the compar., vēnisse: i.e. to reinforce Labienus.
- ↑ missū: missus, -ūs: m, lit. sending; here, order, cōgnōscunt: cf. commemorant, p. 135, l. 6.
- ↑ temeritāte: f, cf. the adv. temerē.
- ↑ eōrum: on their part, in dīmicandī: i.e. before the Germans should arrive.
- ↑ praesidiō . . . relictō: n, abl. absol., quīnque cohortium: (consisting) of five cohorts.
