Caesar's De Bello Gallico 4.32

Question 1

Dum ea geruntur,

Answer 1

While these things are carried on,

Question 2

legione ex consuetudine unā frumentatum missā,

Answer 2

with one legion from custom having been sent to get grain,

Question 3

quae appellabatur septima,

Answer 3

which was called the seventh,

Question 4

neque ullā ad id tempus bellī suspicione interpositā,

Answer 4

nor to that time was any suspicion of war interposed,

Question 5

cum pars hominum in agrīs remaneret,

Answer 5

since part of the men remained in the fields,

Question 6

pars etiam in castra ventitaret,

Answer 6

part also went back and forth into the camp,

Question 7

ei qui pro portīs castrorum in statione erant Caesarī nuntiaverunt

Answer 7

those who were on station in front of the gates of the camp announced to Caesar

Question 8

pulverem maiorem quam consuetudō ferret in ea parte viderī quam in partem legiō iter fecisset.

Answer 8

that greater dust than custom would bring was seen in that direction which the legion had marched into that direction.

Question 9

Caesar id quod erat suspicatus aliquid novī a barbarīs initum consilī,

Answer 9

Caesar suspected it which was that some new plan was being entered upon by the barbarians,

Question 10

cohortes quae in stationibus erant secum in eam partem proficisci,

Answer 10

the cohorts which were on station set out with himself into that direction,

Question 11

ex reliquīs duas in stationem cohortes succedere,

Answer 11

two cohorts from the rest succeeded on station,

Question 12

reliquas armarī et confestim sese subsequī iussit.

Answer 12

he ordered the rest to be armed and immediately to follow himself closely.

Question 13

Cum paulō longius a castrīs processisset,

Answer 13

When he proceeded a little longer from camp,

Question 14

suōs ab hostibus premī atque aegre sustinere et confertā legione ex omnibus partibus tela conicī animadvertit.

Answer 14

he noticed his own men pressed by the enemy and poorly to withstand and weapons were being hurled from every direction on the stuffed legion.

Question 15

Nam quod omnī ex reliquīs partibus demessō frumentō pars una erat reliqua,

Answer 15

For because with all the grain having been reaped out of the remaining parts, one part was remaining,

Question 16

suspicatī hostes hūc nostrōs esse venturōs noctū in silvīs delituerant;

Answer 16

the enemy having suspected our men would come to this place had hidden in the woods at night;

Question 17

tum dispersos depositīs armīs in metendō occupatos subito adortī

Answer 17

then suddenly they attacked (our men) dispersed with their arms laid aside occupied in reaping

Question 18

paucīs interfectīs reliquos incertīs ordinibus perturbaverant,

Answer 18

with a few killed they disturbed greatly the rest in uncertain ranks,

Question 19

simul equitatū atque essedīs circumdederant.

Answer 19

at the same time they had surrounded with cavalry and chariots.