DBG 7.1
In what year is the main action of Book 7 taking place?

About whose murder had Caesar received news? PUBLIUS CLODIUS PULCHER

According to DBG 7.1, how did the Gauls change the information they had heard about Caesar’s situation to meet their own needs?

How did the death of Acco affect the decision-making process of the Gauls?

What do the Gauls consider a very important aspect of their strategy?

What do the Gauls assume about Caesar’s men?

DBG 7.2 – 7.3

What tribe was the first to revolt?

How did the Carnutes secure allegiance from the remaining tribes?

What Roman does Caesar name specifically as a victim of the Carnutes?

How did the Gauls communicate the news about Fusius’ death?

By what time had the news reached the territories of the Arverni? How far did the news travel?

DBG 7.4

What tribe does Vercingetorix belong to?

How had Vercingetorix’ father died?

What happened to Vercingetorix for suggesting that they revolt against Caesar?

What type of people did Vercingetorix recruit for his troops?

What sort of punishment did serious offenders receive?

What sort of punishment did lesser offenders face?

DBG 7.5
Into what territory did V. send Lucterius?

To what tribe did Lucterius belong?

Into what territory did V. march?

What did the Bituriges do when they heard of Vercingetorix’ arrival?

What did the Aedui do per Caesar’s lieutenant’s advice?

Why did the reinforcements return home?

7.7-8

Whom does Caesar need to block before he meets up with his men?

What are was Lucterius threatening to attack?

Why was it so difficult for Caesar to reach the land of the Averni?

7.9-11
How did V. react to the news of Caesar’s approach towards Lingones?

What did V.’s actions force Caesar to do ultimately do?

What did Caesar order ambassadors to the Senones to collect?

7.14, 7.15, 7.16
What did V. hope to accomplish by burning unprotected towns?

Even after burning most of their towns, what do the Bituriges still insist on defending and why?

Exactly where did V. decided to pitch his camp?

7.17

On what side of Avaricum did C. decide to pitch his camp?

Why did C. need to use protective sheds and build two towers?

Name one tribe that was supposed to provide grain to C. and why they could not.

7.19
Why does C. decline to fight an open battle at this time?

How did the men react to his assessment of the situation?

How would C. have felt if he had allowed his men to fight?

7.20

What do V.’s men accuse him of?

What is one reason for the accusation?

How does V. defend the reason you just provided?

7.26-7.27

What is a siege?

Why does C. finally decide to attack Avaricum?

How does C. motivate his men?

Where did the people of the town gather?

What did the people of the town notice that C’s men were doing?

How does C. justify the killing of women and children?

These states are deemed to run their public affairs more properly hold sacred with laws, that, if anyone has received anything about public affair(s) from neighboring peoples by hearsay or rumor, (that) he report (it) to the magistrate and not share (it) with anyone else, because it has been known that often imprudent and inexperienced people have been frightened by false reports and have been driven to (a) misdeed and have adopted a plan about very important matters (i.e., make decisions about life and death).

The magistrates keep secret what has seemed (best to keep secret) and reveal to the common people what they have decided was of service. It is not allowed to talk about public affairs except through an assembly.

T         12 Mar.         DUE: DBG 6.15 lines 1-7

• TRANSLATE in class: DBG 6.16 lines 1-13

W         13 Mar.         DUE: DBG 6.17

• lines 1-9 (up to regere) – AM, KB, CC, TJ, DR, JR, JD
• lines 9 (from huic)-17 – AL, TS, JL, ULJ, JJ, TB, AO
• TRANSLATE in class: DBG 6.18

Th         14 Mar.         DUE: DBG 6.19 and 6.20

• DBG 6.19 – AM, KB, CC, TJ, DR, JR, JD
• DBG 6.20 – AL, TS, JL, ULJ, JJ, TB, AO

F            15 Mar.            TEST DBG BK 6 (LATIN ONLY)

Review BG V

Last several pages contain essay questions from the workbook so you may ignore them…

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 .