De Bello Gallico 2.7

2.7.1Eō dē mediā nocte Caesar īsdem ducibus ūsus quī nūntiī ab Icciō vēnerant, Numidās et Crētas sagittāriōs et funditōrēs Baleārēs subsidiō oppidānīs mittit;

Just after midnight Caesar, using as guides the same men who had come as messengers from Iccius, sends Numidian and Cretan archers and Balearic slingers to help the townspeople;

Note. subsidiō oppidānīs: a double dative, 'as a help to the townspeople'.

2.7.2quōrum adventū et Rēmīs cum spē dēfēnsiōnis studium prōpugnandī accessit et hostibus eādem dē causā spēs potiundī oppidī discessit.

their arrival gave the Remi, along with hope of defence, the will to fight back, and for the same reason the enemy lost hope of taking the town.

Note. potiundī oppidī: an older spelling of potiendī, a gerundive with oppidī.

2.7.3Itaque paulisper apud oppidum morātī agrōsque Rēmōrum dēpopulātī, omnibus vīcīs aedificiīsque quō adīre potuerant incēnsīs, ad castra Caesaris omnibus cōpiīs contendērunt et ā mīlibus passuum minus duōbus castra posuērunt;

So, after staying near the town a short while, laying waste the fields of the Remi and burning all the villages and buildings they could reach, they hurried with all their forces to Caesar's camp and pitched camp less than two miles away;

2.7.4quae castra, ut fūmō atque ignibus significābātur, amplius mīlibus passuum VIII lātitūdinem patēbant.

and that camp, as was shown by the smoke and the fires, stretched more than eight miles wide.