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title: "Gallic War — Book V"
author: "Julius Caesar"
translator: "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 5 of 58
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-v/5/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book V, section 5. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-v/5/"
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# Gallic War — Book V

*Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn*

## 5. Book V — Chapter 5

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-v/5/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-v/5/#p-N

[¶0] These matters being settled, Caesar went to port Itius with the legions. There he discovers that fortyBoth LX and XL are attested.

> Latin: His rebus constitutis Caesar ad portum Itium cum legionibus pervenit.

[¶1] Some editions read sixty here. ships, which had been built in the country of the Meldi, having been driven back by a storm, had been unable to maintain their course, and had returned to the same port from which they had set out; he finds the rest ready for sailing, and furnished with every thing.

> Latin: Ibi cognoscit LX naves, quae in Meldis factae erant, tempestate reiectas cursum tenere non potuisse atque eodem unde erant profectae revertisse; reliquas paratas ad navigandum atque omnibus rebus instructas invenit.

[¶2] In the same place, the cavalry of the whole of Gaul, in number 4,000, assembles, and [also] the chief persons of all the states;

> Latin: Eodem equitatus totius Galliae convenit, numero milium quattuor, principesque ex omnibus civitatibus.

[¶3] he had determined to leave in Gaul a very few of them, whose fidelity toward him he had clearly discerned, and take the rest with him as hostages; because he feared a commotion in Gaul when he should be absent.

> Latin: Ex quibus perpaucos, quorum in se fidem perspexerat, relinquere in Gallia, reliquos obsidum loco secum ducere decreverat, quod, cum ipse abesset, motum Galliae verebatur.