[*] 34.24. putarent: see note on 32 21. — Ariovistum, etc.: Direct — Ariovistus me consule … populi Romani amicitiam adpetiit; cur hunc … quisquam ab officio discessurum iudicet ? Mihi quidem persuadetur, cognitis meis postulatis … eum neque meam neque populi Romani gratiam repudiaturum. Quod si furore … impulsus bellum intulerit, quid tandem vereamini? aut cur de vestra virtute aut de mea diligentia desperetis? Factum （est） eius hostis periculum … ; factum （est） etiam nuper in Italia servili tumultu, quos tamen aliquid usus ac discipline quam a nobis acceperant sublevabant. Ex quo iudicari potest quantum habeat in se boni constantia, propterea quod, quos … inermīs sine causa timuistis （timueritis）, hos postea armatos superavistis . Denique hi sunt idem Germani quibuscum saepenumero Helvetii congressi, non solum in suis sed etiam in illorum finibus, plerumque superaverunt; qui tamen pares esse nostro exercitui non potuerunt. Si quos adversum proelium … commovet, hi, si quaerent （quaerant）, reperire possunt … Ariovistum … dispersos subito adortum, magis ratione … quam virtute vicisse. Cui rationi contra homines barbaros … locus fuit, hac ne ipse quidem sperat nostros exercitus capi posse. Qui suum timorem in rei frumentariae simulationem … conferunt faciunt adroganter, cum … de officio imperatoris desperare … videantur （videntur）. Haec mihi sunt curae; frumentum Sequani, … subministrant, iamque sunt … frumenta matura; de itinere （vos） ipsi … iudicabitis. Quod non fore dicto audientes … dicimini （more probably dicuntur milites）, nihil （ego） ea re commoveor; scio enim, quibuscumque exercitus dicto audiens non fuerit, … avaritiam esse convictam; mea innocentia perpetua vita, felicitas … bello est perspecta. Itaque （ego） quod … conlaturus fui repraesentabo, et … castra movebo, ut … intellegere possim utrum apud vos pudor … an timor plus valeat. Quod si praeterea nemo sequetur, tamen （ego） cum sola decima legione ibo, de qua non dubito, mihique ea praetoria cohors erit. This speech, one of the most remarkable, if not of the most famous, of antiquity, stamps Caesar as a consummate orator as well as an able general. His whole fortunes may be said to have depended on this campaign, at the outset of which he is confronted with a mutiny. By this skillfully contrived address, in which he glosses over the difficulties of the undertaking, which he must have known well; he contrives to inspire in his soldiers the Roman spirit, which was invincible whenever it was really roused. Caesar's marvellous conquest of Gaul depended quite as much on the devotion of his soldiers as on his unequalled ability as a general.
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Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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