De Bello Gallico 5.4

5.4.1Caesar, etsī intellegēbat quā dē causā ea dīcerentur quaeque eum rēs ab īnstitūtō cōnsiliō dēterrēret, tamen, nē aestātem in Trēverīs cōnsūmere cōgerētur omnibus ad Britannicum bellum rēbus comparātīs, Indutiomārum ad sē cum CC obsidibus venīre iussit.

Although Caesar understood why this was being said and what was deterring him from the plan he had formed, still, so as not to be forced to spend the summer among the Treveri when everything had been prepared for the British war, he ordered Indutiomarus to come to him with two hundred hostages.

Note. quā dē causā … quaeque eum rēs …: two indirect questions; quae is the interrogative adjective with rēs.

5.4.2Hīs adductīs, in eīs fīliō propinquīsque eius omnibus, quōs nōminātim ēvocāverat, cōnsōlātus Indutiomārum hortātusque est utī in officiō manēret;

When these had been brought, among them his son and all his relatives, whom he had summoned by name, he reassured Indutiomarus and urged him to remain loyal;

5.4.3nihilō tamen sētius prīncipibus Trēverōrum ad sē convocātīs hōs singillātim Cingetorīgī conciliāvit, quod cum meritō eius ā sē fierī intellegēbat, tum magnī interesse arbitrābātur eius auctōritātem inter suōs quam plūrimum valēre, cuius tam ēgregiam in sē voluntātem perspexisset.

but none the less he called the leading men of the Treveri to him and won them over one by one to Cingetorix, because he understood both that this was owed by him to Cingetorix's merit and that it was very important that the influence of a man whose remarkable goodwill towards himself he had seen so clearly should be as strong as possible among his own people.

Note. nihilō tamen sētius: 'none the less'. cum … tum: 'both … and especially'. magnī interesse: genitive of value, 'that it mattered greatly'.

5.4.4Id tulit factum graviter Indutiomārus, suam grātiam inter suōs minuī, et, quī iam ante inimīcō in nōs animō fuisset, multō gravius hōc dolōre exārsit.

Indutiomarus took this act hard, that his influence among his people was being lessened, and he, who had already been hostile to us before, blazed up much more fiercely in resentment at this.

Note. Id … suam grātiam inter suōs minuī: the infinitive clause explains id, 'this — that his influence was being lessened'.