De Bello Gallico 7.5

7.5.1Hīs suppliciīs celeriter coāctō exercitū Lucterium Cadurcum, summae hominem audāciae, cum parte cōpiārum in Rutēnōs mittit;

Having quickly assembled an army by these punishments, he sends Lucterius, a Cadurcan, a man of the greatest daring, with part of his forces against the Ruteni;

7.5.1ipse in Biturīgēs proficīscitur.

he himself sets out against the Bituriges.

7.5.1Eius adventū Biturīgēs ad Aeduōs, quōrum erant in fidē, lēgātōs mittunt subsidium rogātum, quō facilius hostium cōpiās sustinēre possint.

At his arrival the Bituriges send envoys to the Aedui, under whose protection they were, to ask for help, so that they might more easily withstand the enemy's forces.

Note. subsidium rogātum: supine of purpose after a verb of motion, 'to ask for help'.

7.5.3Aeduī dē cōnsiliō lēgātōrum, quōs Caesar ad exercitum relīquerat, cōpiās equitātūs peditātūsque subsidiō Biturīgibus mittunt.

The Aedui, on the advice of the legates whom Caesar had left with the army, send forces of cavalry and infantry to help the Bituriges.

7.5.4Quī cum ad flūmen Ligerim vēnissent, quod Biturīgēs ab Aeduīs dīvidit, paucōs diēs ibi morātī neque flūmen trānsīre ausī domum revertuntur lēgātīsque nostrīs renūntiant sē Biturīgum perfidiam veritōs revertisse, quibus id cōnsilī fuisse cognōverint, ut, sī flūmen trānsīssent, ūnā ex parte ipsī, alterā Arvernī sē circumsisterent.

When these reached the river Loire, which separates the Bituriges from the Aedui, they waited there a few days, and not daring to cross the river they return home and report to our legates that they had turned back out of fear of the treachery of the Bituriges, who, they had learned, had planned that if they crossed the river the Bituriges themselves would surround them on one side and the Arverni on the other.

Note. revertisse: the active perfect revertī is the usual form, but Caesar uses revertisse beside the deponent present revertor. quibus id cōnsilī fuisse: 'that it had been their plan'.

7.5.6Id eāne dē causā, quam lēgātīs prōnūntiārunt, an perfidiā adductī fēcerint, quod nihil nōbīs cōnstat, nōn vidētur prō certō esse prōpōnendum.

Whether they did this for the reason they gave the legates, or were led by treachery, should not be stated for certain, because we have no sure knowledge of it.

Note. eāne = eā + -ne, introducing the first half of a double question (… an …): 'whether for that reason … or'.

7.5.7Biturīgēs eōrum discessū statim cum Arvernīs iunguntur.

After their departure the Bituriges at once join the Arverni.