De Bello Gallico 2.14

2.14.1Prō hīs Dīviciācus (nam post discessum Belgārum dīmissīs Haeduōrum cōpiīs ad eum reverterat) facit verba: Bellovacōs omnī tempore in fidē atque amīcitiā cīvitātis Haeduae fuisse;

Diviciacus spoke on their behalf (for after the Belgae withdrew he had sent away the forces of the Haedui and come back to Caesar): the Bellovaci, he said, had always been under the protection of the Haeduan state and in friendship with it;

2.14.3impulsōs ab suīs prīncipibus, quī dīcerent Haeduōs ā Caesare in servitūtem redāctōs omnēs indignitātēs contumēliāsque perferre, et ab Haeduīs dēfēcisse et populō Rōmānō bellum intulisse.

they had been driven on by their leaders, who said that the Haedui had been reduced to slavery by Caesar and were suffering every humiliation and insult, and so they had broken with the Haedui and made war on the Roman people.

2.14.4Quī eius cōnsiliī prīncipēs fuissent, quod intellegerent quantam calamitātem cīvitātī intulissent, in Britanniam profūgisse.

Those who had been the leaders of this plan had fled to Britain, because they understood what disaster they had brought on their state.

2.14.5Petere nōn sōlum Bellovacōs, sed etiam prō hīs Haeduōs, ut suā clēmentiā ac mānsuētūdine in eōs ūtātur.

Not only the Bellovaci but also the Haedui on their behalf asked him to treat them with his usual mercy and gentleness.

2.14.6Quod sī fēcerit, Haeduōrum auctōritātem apud omnēs Belgās amplificātūrum, quōrum auxiliīs atque opibus, sī qua bella inciderint, sustentāre cōnsuērint.

If he did this, he would increase the standing of the Haedui among all the Belgae, on whose help and resources they usually relied whenever any wars broke out.

Note. Quod sī fēcerit: 'but if he did this'; sī qua bella: after sī, qua means 'any'.