De Bello Gallico 6.32

6.32.1Segnī Condrūsīque, ex gente et numerō Germānōrum, quī sunt inter Eburōnēs Trēverōsque, lēgātōs ad Caesarem mīsērunt ōrātum, nē sē in hostium numerō dūceret nēve omnium Germānōrum, quī essent citrā Rhēnum, ūnam esse causam iūdicāret: nihil sē dē bellō cōgitāvisse, nūlla Ambiorīgī auxilia mīsisse.

The Segni and Condrusi, of the race and number of the Germans, who live between the Eburones and the Treveri, sent envoys to Caesar to beg him not to count them among his enemies, and not to judge that the cause of all the Germans on this side of the Rhine was one and the same: they had had no thought of war, they said, and had sent no help to Ambiorix.

Note. ōrātum is a supine of purpose after mīsērunt, 'sent to beg'. The clauses nē … dūceret, nēve … iūdicāret, and then nihil sē … cōgitāvisse report the envoys' words.

6.32.2Caesar explōrātā rē quaestiōne captīvōrum, sī quī ad eōs Eburōnēs ex fugā convēnissent, ad sē ut redūcerentur, imperāvit;

Caesar, having found out the facts by questioning prisoners, ordered them to bring back to him any of the Eburones who had come to them in their flight;

Note. sī quī: after sī, quī is the indefinite 'any'. The ut-clause ut redūcerentur depends on imperāvit, and its subject is the people of the sī-clause.

6.32.2sī ita fēcissent, fīnēs eōrum sē violātūrum negāvit.

if they did so, he said he would not harm their lands.

6.32.3Tum cōpiīs in trēs partēs distribūtīs impedīmenta omnium legiōnum Aduatucam contulit.

Then, having divided his forces into three parts, he brought the baggage of all the legions to Aduatuca.

6.32.4Id castellī nōmen est.

That is the name of a fort.

6.32.4Hoc ferē est in mediīs Eburōnum fīnibus, ubi Titūrius atque Aurunculeius hiemandī causā cōnsēderant.

This is almost in the middle of the land of the Eburones, where Titurius and Aurunculeius had settled to spend the winter.

6.32.5Hunc cum reliquīs rēbus locum probābat, tum quod superiōris annī mūnītiōnēs integrae manēbant, ut mīlitum labōrem sublevāret.

He approved of this place both for other reasons and because the fortifications of the year before were still intact, so that he might spare the soldiers' labor.

Note. cum … tum: 'both … and especially'. The second reason, quod … manēbant, is the one Caesar stresses.

6.32.5Praesidiō impedīmentīs legiōnem quārtamdecimam relīquit, ūnam ex eīs tribus, quās proximē cōnscrīptās ex Ītaliā trādūxerat.

As a guard for the baggage he left the fourteenth legion, one of the three which he had recently enrolled and brought over from Italy.

6.32.6Eī legiōnī castrīsque Quīntum Tullium Cicerōnem praeficit ducentōsque equitēs attribuit.

He put Quintus Tullius Cicero in command of that legion and the camp, and assigned him two hundred cavalry.