Caesar's De Bello Gallico 4.34

Question 1

Quibus rebus perturbatīs nostrīs,

Answer 1

By which things with our men disturbed,

Question 2

novitate pugnae,

Answer 2

with the newness of the fight,

Question 3

tempore opportunissimō Caesar auxilium tulit:

Answer 3

at the most opportune time Caesar brought help:

Question 4

namque eius adventū hostes constiterunt,

Answer 4

for the enemy stood still with his arrival,

Question 5

nostrī se ex timore receperunt.

Answer 5

our men recovered (themselves) from fear.

Question 6

Quō factō,

Answer 6

By which deed,

Question 7

ad lacessendum hostem et ad committendum proelium alienum esse tempus arbitratus

Answer 7

he thought the time was unfavourable to attack the enemy and to engage in battle

Question 8

se locō continuit et brevi tempore intermissō in castra legiones reduxit.

Answer 8

and they remained in their own place and with a short time passed he led back the legions to camp.

Question 9

Dum haec geruntur,

Answer 9

While these things are being carried on,

Question 10

nostrīs omnibus occupatīs quī erant in argīs reliquī discesserunt.

Answer 10

with all our men seized who were in the fields, the rest departed.

Question 11

Secutae sunt continuos complures dies tempestates,

Answer 11

Storms followed for several continuous days,

Question 12

quae et nostros in castrīs continerent et hostem a pugnā prohiberent.

Answer 12

which held both our men in the camp and prevented the enemy from a fight.

Question 13

Interim barbarī nuntios in omnes partes dimiserunt

Answer 13

Meanwhile the foreigners sent out reports in all parts

Question 14

paucitatemque nostorum militum suīs praedicaverunt

Answer 14

and told to their own men the fewness of our soldiers

Question 15

et quanta praedae faciendae atque in perpetuum suī liberandī facultas daretur,

Answer 15

and how great an opportunity of making plunder and of freeing themselves forever was given,

Question 16

sī Romanos castrīs expulissent,

Answer 16

if they should expel the Romans from the camp,

Question 17

demonstraverunt.

Answer 17

they pointed out.

Question 18

Hīs rebus celeriter magnā multitudine peditatūs equitatusque coactā ad castra venerunt.

Answer 18

With these things quickly with a great number of foot soldiers and horsemen collected they came to the camp.