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title: "Gallic War — Book VII"
author: "Julius Caesar"
translator: "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 63 of 90
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vii/63/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book VII, section 63. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vii/63/"
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# Gallic War — Book VII

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

## 63. Book VII — Chapter 63

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vii/63/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vii/63/#p-N

[¶0] The revolt of the Aedui being known, the war grows more dangerous. Embassies are sent by them in all directions:

> Latin: Defectione Aeduorum cognita bellum augetur. Legationes in omnes partes circummittuntur:

[¶1] as far as they can prevail by influence, authority, or money, they strive to excite the state [to revolt].

> Latin: quantum gratia, auctoritate, pecunia valent, ad sollicitandas civitates nituntur;

[¶2] Having got possession of the hostages whom Caesar had deposited with them, they terrify the hesitating by putting them to death.

> Latin: nacti obsides, quos Caesar apud eos deposuerat, horum supplicio dubitantes territant.

[¶3] The Aedui request Vercingetorix to come to them and communicate his plans of conducting the war.

> Latin: Petunt a Vercingetorige Aedui ut ad se veniat rationesque belli gerendi communicet.

[¶4] On obtaining this request they insist that the chief command should be assigned to them; and when the affair became a disputed question, a council of all Gaul is summoned to Bibracte. They came together in great numbers and from every quarter to the same place.

> Latin: Re impetrata contendunt ut ipsis summa imperi tradatur, et re in controversiam deducta totius Galliae concilium Bibracte indicitur. Eodem conveniunt undique frequentes.

[¶5] The decision is left to the votes of the mass; all to a man approve of Vercingetorix as their general.

> Latin: Multitudinis suffragiis res permittitur: ad unum omnes Vercingetorigem probant imperatorem.

[¶6] The Remi, Lingones, and Treviri were absent from this meeting; the two former because they attached themselves to the alliance of Rome; the Treviri because they were very remote and were hard pressed by the Germans; which was also the reason of their being absent during the whole war, and their sending auxiliaries to neither party.

> Latin: Ab hoc concilio Remi, Lingones, Treveri afuerunt: illi, quod amicitiam Romanorum sequebantur; Treveri, quod aberant longius et ab Germanis premebantur, quae fuit causa quare toto abessent bello et neutris auxilia mitterent.

[¶7] The Aedui are highly indignant at being deprived of the chief command; they lament the change of fortune, and miss Caesar's indulgence toward them; however, after engaging in the war, they do not dare to pursue their own measures apart from the rest.

> Latin: Magno dolore Aedui ferunt se deiectos principatu, queruntur fortunae commutationem et Caesaris indulgentiam in se requirunt, neque tamen suscepto bello suum consilium ab reliquis separare audent.

[¶8] Eporedirix and Viridomarus, youths of the greatest promise, submit reluctantly to Vercingetorix.

> Latin: Inviti summae spei adulescentes Eporedorix et Viridomarus Vercingetorigi parent.