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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: 39 of 44
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/39/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book VI, section 39. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/39/"
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# Gallic War — Book VI

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

## 39. Book VI — Chapter 39

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/39/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/39/#p-N

[¶0] The foraging having in the mean time been completed, our soldiers distinctly hear the shout; the horse hasten on before and discover in what danger the affair is.

> Latin: Interim confecta frumentatione milites nostri clamorem exaudiunt: praecurrunt equites; quanto res sit in periculo cognoscunt.

[¶1] But here there is no fortification to receive them, in their alarm: those last enlisted, and unskilled in military discipline turn their faces to the military tribune and the centurions; they wait to find what orders may be given by them. No one is so courageous as not to be disconcerted by the suddenness of the affair.

> Latin: Hic vero nulla munitio est quae perterritos recipiat: modo conscripti atque usus militaris imperiti ad tribunum militum centurionesque ora convertunt; quid ab his praecipiatur exspectant. Nemo est tam fortis quin rei novitate perturbetur.

[¶2] The barbarians, espying our standard in the distance, desist from the attack;

> Latin: Barbari signa procul conspicati oppugnatione desistunt:

[¶3] at first they suppose that the legions, which they had learned from their prisoners had removed further off, had returned; afterward, despising their small number, they make an attack on them at all sides.

> Latin: redisse primo legiones credunt, quas longius discessisse ex captivis cognoverant; postea despecta paucitate ex omnibus partibus impetum faciunt.