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title: "Gallic War — Book VI"
author: "Julius Caesar"
translator: "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 31 of 44
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/31/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book VI, section 31. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/31/"
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# Gallic War — Book VI

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

## 31. Book VI — Chapter 31

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/31/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/31/#p-N

[¶0] Whether Ambiorix did not collect his forces from cool deliberation, because he considered he ought not to engage in a battle, or [whether] he was debarred by time and prevented by the sudden arrival of our horse, when he supposed the rest of the army was closely following, is doubtful:

> Latin: Ambiorix copias suas iudicione non conduxerit, quod proelio dimicandum non existimarit, an tempore exclusus et repentino equitum adventu prohibitus, cum reliquum exercitum subsequi crederet, dubium est.

[¶1] but certainly, dispatching messengers through the country, he ordered every one to provide for himself; and a part of them fled into the forest Arduenna, a part into the extensive morasses;

> Latin: Sed certe dimissis per agros nuntiis sibi quemque consulere iussit. Quorum pars in Arduennam silvam, pars in continentes paludes profugit;

[¶2] those who were nearest the ocean concealed themselves in the islands which the tides usually form;

> Latin: qui proximi Oceano fuerunt, his insulis sese occultaverunt, quas aestus efficere consuerunt;

[¶3] many, departing from their territories, committed themselves and all their possessions to perfect strangers.

> Latin: multi ex suis finibus egressi se suaque omnia alienissimis crediderunt.

[¶4] Cativolcus, king of one half of the Eburones, who had entered into the design together with Ambiorix, since, being now worn out by age, he was unable to endure the fatigue either of war or flight, having cursed Ambiorix with every imprecation, as the person who had been the contriver of that measure, destroyed himself with the juice of the yew-tree, of which there is a great abundance in Gaul and Germany.

> Latin: Catuvolcus, rex dimidiae partis Eburonum, qui una cum Ambiorige consilium inierat, aetate iam confectus, cum laborem aut belli aut fugae ferre non posset, omnibus precibus detestatus Ambiorigem, qui eius consilii auctor fuisset, taxo, cuius magna in Gallia Germaniaque copia est, se exanimavit.