Caesar's De Bello Gallico 1.4

Question 1

Ea res est Helvetiīs per indicium enuntiata.

Answer 1

This matter was reported to the Helvetians through informers.

Question 2

Moribus suis Orgetorigem ex vinculīs causam dicere coegerunt;

Answer 2

By their own customs they force Orgetorix to say his cause from chains;

Question 3

damnatum poenam sequī oportebat, ut igni cremaretur.

Answer 3

if condemned it was necessary to pursue punishment, that he be burned by fire.

Question 4

Diē constitutā causae dictionis Orgetorix ad iudicium omnem suam familiam,

Answer 4

On the day decided for the cause of pleading for trial Orgetorix collected all his own household,

Question 5

ad hominum milia decem, undique coegit,

Answer 5

near ten thousand men from all sides,

Question 6

et omnes clientes obaeratosque suos, quorum magnam numerum habebat,

Answer 6

and all his clients and doctors, of which he had a great number,

Question 7

eōdem conduxit;

Answer 7

he conducted to the same place;

Question 8

per eos ne causam diceret se eripuit.

Answer 8

through them he rescued himself so that he not plead his case.

Question 9

Cum civitas ob eam rem incitata armīs ius suum exsequi conaretur

Answer 9

When the state stirred up on account of this matter attempted to follow out their own law with arms

Question 10

multitudinemque hominum ex agrīs magistratūs cogerent,

Answer 10

and the magistrates collected a multitude of men from the fields,

Question 11

Orgetorix mortuus est;

Answer 11

Orgetorix died;

Question 12

neque abest suspicio,

Answer 12

nor is the suspicion absent,

Question 13

ut Helvetiī arbitrantur,

Answer 13

as the Helvetians think,

Question 14

quin ipse sibi mortem consciverit.

Answer 14

that he himself resolved upon death for himself.