[*] 6.14. Caesari: the tendency is so strong in Latin to put the most emphatic word first that it is so placed even when the first clause is a dependent one, as here. We should say: Caesar, when it was reported, etc., hastened; the Latin says: to Caesar, when it was reported, etc. [he] （which in such cases is unnecessary, having already been expressed in a different form） hastened. He was at this time at Rome, having laid down his consulship, preparing to set out for his province. Every consul was entitled to the governorship of a province for one year after his term of office, and, by a special law, Caesar's government （consisting of the three provinces of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul and Illyricum） had been conferred for a term of five years. The news of the emigration hastened his movements. — nuntiatum esset: the same idiomatic use of the subjv. with cum as in 4 12. The relation here, however, is more apparent. The clause gives not the time merely, but the circumstances, 'upon this being,' etc. — id, in apposition with eos … conari （the real subject of nuntiatum esset）, that they were attempting.
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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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