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Weekly Assignments for AP Latin
AP 3/6 – 3/8
AP Latin
March 06, 2013
At Home
STUDY for tomorrow’s test on COMPREHENSION of plot (all of BK 5) and TRANSLATION of Latin passages for DBG BK 5 AND WRITE NOTES for Mueller pp. 233-239 (DBG 6.1-12)
March 07, 2013
In Class
Test on COMPREHENSION of plot (all of BK 5) and TRANSLATION of Latin passages for DBG BK 5
At Home
TRANSLATE and PREPARE DBG 6.13
*lines 1-18 – AM, KB, CC, TJ, DR, JR, JD
*lines 19-33 – AL, TS, JL, ULJ, JJ, TB, AO
March 08, 2013
In Class
Discuss DBG 6.1-12; DBG 6.13
At Home
TRANSLATE and PREPARE DBG 6.14
*lines 1-8 – AM, KB, CC, TJ, DR, JR, JD
*lines 9-19 – AL, TS, JL, ULJ, JJ, TB, AO
DBG Bk 5 Outline Help
Last several pages contain essay questions from the workbook so you may ignore them…
DBG 5.46-5.48
5.46
Caesar, with the letters received around the eleventh hour of the day, immediately sends a messenger to the [territory of] the Bellovaci to the quaestor Marcus Crassus, whose winter quarters were twenty five miles away from him; he [Caesar] orders a legion to set out in the middle of the night and to come to him [Caesar] quickly. Crassus leaves with the messenger [i.e., as soon as he got the message]. He sends the other envoy to Gaius Fabius, so that he may induce the legion into the boundaries of the Atrebates where he was knowing a journey must be made by him.
He writes to Labienus [that], if he was able to act for the interest of the republic, he should come with a legion to the territory of the Nervi. He does not think that the remaining part of the army, which was slightly farther away, should be waited for; he gathers together about 400 cavalry from the nearest winter quarters.
5.47
Around the third hour, informed by scouts about the arrival of Crassus, on that day he [Caesar] proceeds twenty miles. He puts Crassus in charge at Samaraobriva and gives/assigns [him] a legion, because there he was leaving behind the army’s equipment/baggage, the hostages of the [Gallic] states, public letters, and all the grain which in this [place] he had conveyed for the purpose of enduring the winter. Fabius, as it had been commanded, not having delayed much [for this reason] meets [him, Caesar] on the march with the legion.
Having learned the death of Sabinus and murder of cohorts, since all the forces of the Treveri had come to him, Labienus having feared that, if he had made a similar departure of flight from the winter quarters, he would not be able to sustain the force of the enemy, especially [those enemies] whom he knew to be elated by a fresh victory, he sends letters back to Caesar, with how much danger (to him) he was about to lead out (his) legion from winter quarters; he describes what happened to the Eburones; he explains (that) all of the cavalries and infantries of the Treveri had taken a position a distance (of) 3 miles from his own camp.
5.48
With his [Labienus’s] plan having been approved, although disappointed with [his] opinions of the three legions, Caesar had gone back to two [legions]; nevertheless he was depending on the only [hope for] rescue of the common safety in speed. He comes into the territory of Nervii by large [i.e., forced] marches. There from the captives, he learns what [things] are being done at Cicero[‘s location], and in how much danger the thing [i.e., affair] is. Then he persuades somebody from horsemen of Gaul with a great reward, that he might bring a letter to Cicero.
He sends this written in Greek letters, lest our plans are recognized by the enemies, with the letter having been intercepted. If he [the messenger] should not able to attack, he advises that he [the messenger] should hurl within the entrenchments of the camps a javelin with the letter tied down to a strap. He writes in the letter that he will be there swiftly having set out with the legions; he urges that he [Cicero] maintain [his] previous courage. The Gaul [i.e., the messenger] having feared danger, as it had been commanded, throws [his] spear.
This [spear]by change stuck to the tower; and not noticed by our men for two days, was discerned by some soldier on the third day, taken down it is brought to Cicero. That man [Cicero] reads out loud the read-through [letter] (he read the letter to himself, and then after that, out loud) and inspires them all with the greatest joy. Then the smokes of the fires were being seen in the distance, which matter drove out all uncertainty in regard to the arrival of the legion .
DBG 5.41-5.45
5.41
(First half… up to sese)
At that time, the leaders and chiefs of the Nervii who have some access of conversation and a cause of friendship with Cicero say [that] they wish to converse. With the possibility having been made, they state the same [things] which Ambiorix had discussed with Titurius: [that] all Gaul was in arms, [that] the Germans crossed the the Rhine, [that] the camps of Caesar’s other men wer attacked. They add also about the death of Sabinus. They show Ambiorix for the sake of creating credibility.
They say that these men [Romans] are mistaken if they hope anything of help from them [the Romans], who despair from their affairs; that they, however, are with this mind towards Cicero and the Roman people, [such] that they reject nothing except the winter camps and do not wish that this custom become ingrained: that it is permitted to them [the Romans] to depart unhurt from the winter quarters through themselves and to set out into whatever region they wish without fear.
To these Cicero replies just once: [that] it is not a habit of the Roman people to accept from the armed enemy any condition: if they wish to withdraw from weapons, they may use him as a helper and they may send legates to Caesar; that he hopes that in accordance with his [Caesar’s] justice that they would obtain those things which they sought.
5.42
Having been repelled/disappointed from this hope, the Nervii encompass the winter-camp with a wall of 9 feet (high) and with a trench of 15 feet (deep). They had learned these things from us by the custom of previous years, and were instructed by those whom they were taking secretly as captives from the army; but with no supply of an iron tool which was fit for this need/use, they were compelled to cut around the sod with a sword, [and] to empty the land with hands and with a small coat.
From which matter indeed the multitude of men was able to be known: for in less than 3 hours they completed the fortification 15 miles in circumference; and in the remaining days they began to prepare and make towers to the height of the wall, hooks and tortoises, which the same captives had taught.
5.43
On the seventh day of the assault, with a very great wind having risen, they began to hurl hot balls of molten clay from slings and heated javelins upon the huts, which in accordance to Gallic custom had been covered with straw. These quickly seize fire and by the violence of the wind they spread it into every part of the camp.
The enemies with a very great shout, as if having already won and victory having been found, began to advance the towers and tortoises and to ascend the rampart with ladders. But so great was the courage of the soldiers, and [such] was the presence of [their] mind that, although they were burned on all sides by fire/flame and were oppressed by a great multitude of weapons, and understood that all [their] baggage and fortune were burning, not only did no one depart the rampart for the cause of stepping away, but almost no one even looked back, and then all fought most sharply and most bravely. This day was by far the most severe for our men; but nevertheless it had this outcome, that on that day the greatest number of enemies was wounded and was slain, as they had crowded themselves under the very rampart and the farthest men were not giving retreat to the first men. The flames indeed having ceased for a little and a tower having been thrusted in a certain place and touching the rampart, the centurions of the third cohort went back from that place where they were standing, and withdrew all their men; they began to call the enemies by command and by voices, to enter if they wished; no one of them/which dared to advance. Then they (the enemies) were dislodged by the stones that had been thrown from all parts, and (their) tower set on fire below.
5.44
There were in this legion very brave men, the centurions Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, who approached the first rank. These [men] used to have continuous arguments with one another, as to which should be preferred to the other, and in all the years they were fighting in respect to [their] rank. From these [men] Pullo, since he was fighting most sharply against the ramparts, says, ” Vorenus, why do you hesitate? Or what opportunity do you wait for for proving your virtue? This day will decide our arguments.” When he had said this, he advanced beyond the fortifications and he rushed into that part of the enemy which seemed thickest. Not even Vorenus them kept himself in the ramparts, but having feared the opinion of everyone followed closely. Then, with a little space left, Pullo directs the pike against the enemies and it pierces one [who was] charging from the multitude; with this [man] having been struck and killed, they protect him with shields, all together they hurl weapons against the enemy and they do not give opportunity for retreating. The shield of Pullo is pierced and the spear is driven in [his] sword belt. This circumstance turns aside his scabbard and obstructs his right hand from attempting to draw his sword, and the enemies stand around him.
[His personal] enemy Vorenus runs to help that man and goes to help the laboring man. The entire multitude immediately turns itself from Pullo to this man; they consider to kill him with a spear. Vorenus carries the fight hand to hand with a sword and with one man killed he put to flight the little remaining; while he threatens more eagerly, he falls cast down into a lower place. Again Pullo brings help to the one who had been surrounded, and they both recover themselves within the fortifications unharmed with the highest praise with several [enemies] killed. Fortune turned for each in the dispute and combat in such a way, that one enemy was safety and assistance to the other, and it was not able to be decided, which of the two seemed to be preferred.
5.45
The more serious and severe the attack became day by day, (and especially because, as a great number of the soldiers were exhausted with wounds, the matter had come to a small number of defenders) the more frequent the letters and messages were sent to Caesar; a part of whom having been caught were put to death in the sight of our soldiers with torture.
There was one within the Nervi by the name Vertico, having been born from a honorable place, who had retreated from the first siege to Cicero, had shown his allegiance to him. This man persuades a slave with hope of freedom and with great rewards, to bring the letters to Caesar. That man (servant) carries these things attached on a spear and the Gaul having been dealt with arrives to Caesar without any suspicion among the Gauls, it is known from him (servant) about the dangers of Cicero and the legion.
DBG 5.38 – 5.40
5.38
Ambiorix having been lifted by this victory sets out immediately with the cavalry to the Aduatici, who were neighboring to his kingdom; he discontinues neither the night nor the day and he orders the foot soldiers to follow closely.
With the matter having been explained and the Aduatuci having been rallied , he arrives on the next day among the Nervii and he exhorts that they might not throw away the opportunity of freeing themselves forever and of punishing the Romans for those wrongs/injustices which they [the Gauls] have received; he shows that the two legates have been killed and a great part of the army has died; [he shows] that [it is] nothing of a effort [for] the legion, which is passing the winter with Cicero, to be killed having been suddenly [i.e., if suddenly attacked]; he promises himself as an assistant toward this matter. He easily persuades the Nervii with this speech.
5.39
And so with the messengers having been sent away immediately to the Ceutrones, the Grudii, the Levaci, Pleomoxii, (and) the Geidumni, who are all under the authority of them (the Nervii), they assemble armed forces as large as they are able and unexpectedly they rush at the winter quarters of Cicero, with the report about the death of Titurius [Sabinus] not yet conveyed to him. It also happens to him (Quintus Tullius Cicero), which was necessary, that some soldiers who had departed into the forest for the sake of collecting wood and fortifying were intercepted by the sudden arrival of cavalry.
These having been surrounded by a large band, the Eburones, the Nervii, the Aduatuci and the allies and the dependents of all these people begin to attack the legion. Our (men) quickly hurry to the arms, they mount the rampart. This day is withstood with difficulty because the enemies were placing all hope in swiftness, and having accomplished this victory they were hoping that they would be conquerers forever.
5.40
Letters are sent to Caesar immediately by Cicero with great rewards having been offered (to the messengers), if they had carried (them) through: with all the roads having been obstructed the sent men are intercepted. At night from the lumber which they had collected for the sake of fortification, as many as 120 towers are fully constructed with unbelievable speed; [and those things] which seemed to have been lacking for defense are built.
On the following day the enemy, after they had gathered much larger forces, attack the camp, [and] complete the trench. In the same manner by which on the day before, it is opposed by our men. This same thing happens afterward on the remaining days. No part of nighttime is omitted for the work; not to the sick, not to the wounded is the opportunity for rest granted.
Whatever things are needed for the next day’s attack are prepared at night; many beams burned at the end, a great number of wall pikes is constructed; towers are built up, battlements and parapets are woven from the wickerwork. Cicero himself, although he was in very delicate health, was not indeed leaving for himself the night time for quiet, so that spontaneously he was compelled to spare himself by the assembly and voices/pleas of the soldiers.
DBG 5.37
5.37
Sabinus orders tribunes of the soldier whom in the moment he was holding around him and the centurions of the first ranks to follow him and, when he had approached nearer to Ambiorix, having been commanded to hurl the weapons, does [the thing] ordered and he ordered his men to do the same. Meanwhile, while they discuss among themselves about the conditions/terms, and by plan a longer speech is begun by Ambiorix, gradually surrounded, he is killed.
Then indeed according to their custom they shout out “victory,” and they raise a howl, and with an attack made against our [men] they greatly disrupted [our] ranks. There Lucius Cotta while fighting is killed together with the greatest part of the soldiers. The remaining [men] withdraw into the camp from where they had marched out. From these Lucius Petrosidius the eagle-bearer, when he was overwhelmed by the great number of enemies, cast the eagle within the camp; he himself is slain while fighting most bravely in front of the camps.
With difficulty those [men] withstand the attack into the night; at night with safety despaired of, they all killed themselves to the man. A few [men] having slipped from the battle with uncertain passages come through the forests to the legate Titus Labienus in the winter quarters and they inform him of the events.
DBG 5.36
5. 36
Disturbed by these things Quintus Titurius [Sabinus], when he had caught sight of Ambiorix from afar encouraging his men, sends his interpreter Gnaius Pompeius to him (Ambiorix) in order to request that he spare him and his soldiers. He having been called replied: if he should wish to speak with him, (it) is permitted; that (he) hopes (this thing) which pertains to the safety for the soldiers can be gained from the people; that to him truly no harm would be done, and that he pledged his faith to that matter.
That man [Sabinus] communicates with wounded Cotta, if it seemed appropriate that they retire from the fight and speak together with Ambiorix: [saying that he] hope to be able to have gained from Ambiorix concerning his own safety and of the soldiers. Cotta refuses to go to an armed enemy and in this (refusal) he perseveres/remains stubborn.
AP 03/04
OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS
PREP QUESTIONS AND/OR MULTI CHOICE – Caesar Workbook p. 98-102; 106-109; 112-116;
TONIGHT 120-124; 129-134; 138-143;
IN CLASS 146-149; 153-156; 160-164
STUDY, STUDY, STUDY for the Wednesday’s test on Book 5
DBG 5.35
5.35
[And this] command having been obeyed very carefully, when any cohort had gone out from the circle and had made an attack, the enemies were fleeing very quickly. Meanwhile it was necessary that this part/area be made bare and that weapons be received from the open side/flank. Again when[ever] they had begun to reutrn to that place from which they had gone out, both by those who had yielded and by those who had stood closest [to them] they were being surrounded, but if however they wished to keep the place, neither was the place left [available] for bravery, nor were they while crowded together able to avoid the weapons hurled by such a great multitude.
Nevertheless, although distressed with so many disadvantages, with many wounds received,they were withstanding and with a great part of the day spent, although it was fought from dawn to the eighth hour, they were doing nothing which was unworthy of them.
Then each thigh for Titus Balventius, who had led as first centurion the previous year, a brave man and of great authority, is pierced by a javelin; Quintus Lucanius of the same rank fighting very bravely is slain while he comes to aid [his] surrounded son; Lucus Cotta the ambassador is wounded while encouraging all the cohorts and ranks directly in the face with a slingshot.
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