SELECTED PASSAGES FROM LATIN PROSE AUTHORS AN EPISODE FROM THE GALLIC WAR (Caesar,
DC
Bella Gallico, VI,
LESSON
7,
8)
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
1
24)
.
Dum
haec a Caesare geruntur, Treveri magnls coactis peditatus equitatusque copils Labienum cum una legione, quae in eorum flnibus hiemabat, adorirl parabant iamque ab eo non longius bldui via aberant, cum duas venisse
5
Positis castrls a legiones missu Caesaris cognoscunt. mllibus passuum xv, auxilia Germanorum exspectare constituunt.
Labienus
eorum 1.
hostium cognito consilio, sperans temeritate
fore aliquam dlmicandi facultatem, praesidio qulnque
haec:
i.e.
in the narrative
extract
una
4.
with
is
from which
scunt
this
1.
taken.
cum:
2.
events mentioned
"and."
a journey,
commemorant, as
adv.,
135,
p.
away
(with
degree of difference).
temeritate: temere. 8.
the one.
the compar. venisse: to reenforce Labienus.
cf.
a:
abl. of
translate
via: than
6.
cf.
the
adv.
on their part. 9. eorum: dimicandi i.e. before the Germans should arrive. repraesidio
abl. i.e.
.
missu: missus, -us, M., lit. order. here, cogndsending;
licto
5.
abl. absol.
.
.
quinque cohor-
tium: (consisting) of five cohorts. 158
