Caesar's De Bello Gallico 4.27

Question 1

Hostes proeliō superatī,

Answer 1

The enemy having been defeated in battle,

Question 2

simul atque se ex fugā receperunt,

Answer 2

as soon as they retreated from their flight,

Question 3

statim ad Caesarem legatos de pace miserunt;

Answer 3

immediately they sent envoys to Caesar about peace;

Question 4

obsides daturos quaeque imperasset facturos sese pollicitī sunt.

Answer 4

they promised they would give hostages and would do what he had ordered.

Question 5

Unā cum hīs legatīs Commius Atrebas venit,

Answer 5

Together with these envoys Commius, an Atreban, came,

Question 6

quem suprā demonstraveram ā Caesare in Britanniam praemissum.

Answer 6

whom above had pointed out was sent ahead by Caesar into Britain.

Question 7

Hunc illī e navī egressum,

Answer 7

These men had seized this man having departed from the ship,

Question 8

cum ad eos oratoris modō Caesaris mandata deferret,

Answer 8

when in the manner of a speaker he was carrying Caesar’s instructions to them,

Question 9

comprehenderant atque in vincuoa coniecerant;

Answer 9

and they had thrown him into chains;

Question 10

tum proeliō factō remiserunt

Answer 10

then with the battle done they sent him back

Question 11

et in petendā pace eius reī culpam in multitudinem contulerunt

Answer 11

and in seeking peace they brought the fault of this matter onto the multitude

Question 12

et propter imprudentiam ut ignosceretur petiverunt.

Answer 12

and because of their ignorance to pardon them.

Question 13

Caesar questus quod,

Answer 13

Caesar complained because,

Question 14

cum ultrō in continentem legatīs missīs pacem ab se petissent,

Answer 14

although they had sought peace from himself moreover with envoys having been send out onto the continent,

Question 15

bellum sine causā intulissent,

Answer 15

they had brought in war without cause,

Question 16

ignoscere imprudentiae dixit obsidesque imperavit;

Answer 16

he said he was pardoning their ignorance and he ordered hostages;

Question 17

quorum illī partem statim dederunt,

Answer 17

of which they immediately surrendered part to that man,

Question 18

partem ex longinquioribus locīs arcessitam paucīs diebus sese daturos dixerunt.

Answer 18

they said they would give a part summoned more distant places in a few days.

Question 19

Interea suos remigrare in agros iusserunt,

Answer 19

Meanwhile they ordered their own men to return into the fields,

Question 20

principesque undique convenīre et se civitatesque suas Caesarī commendare coeperunt.

Answer 20

and leading men everywhere began to come together and to entrust themselves and their own states to Caesar.