WorksheetsCaesar 7.72
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins
Quibus rebus cognitis ex perfugis et captivis: choose the literal translation (and not the google translate translation)
Learning these proceedings from the deserters and captives
With these things having been learned from deserters and captives
When the deserters were known to him from among the ones who had fled
What were the things that Caesar had learned about from deserters?
that Vercingetorix had sent his cavalry for reinforcements and was going to try to shelter in place with the Alesians and remaining soldiers behind the walls to live on what food they have
that Vercingetorix was planning an escape in order to get more supplies and food for the people
that the Romans had deserted to the Gauls and were about to lead an attack on the weak spots of the Romans' walls
Caesar haec genera
munitionis instituit
Caesar wrote the articles of his constitution
Caesar build a trench along the fortification
Caesar adopted the following kinds of fortifications
Caesar began these types of fortification
Fossam pedum viginti directis lateribus duxit
he brought a trench with perpendicular sides
he dug a 20 feet deep ditch with straight sides
he led his men to dig 20 straight trenches
quoniam tantum esset necessario spatium complexus
because there was just enough space necessary
because he surrounded just as much space as was necessary
because it was necessary to have space for hugs
since he necessarily embraced a space of
nec facile totum opus corona militum cingeretur
so that entire constructions wouldn't be surrounded easily by a ring of soldiers
Now all the work could not be easily surrounded by a line
nor entirely easily is the work a crown of the military
ne de improviso aut noctu ad munitiones hostium multitudo advolaret
so that a crowd of the enemy could not rush at the fortifications by surprise or at night
nor on account of the improvised fortifications would the enemies fly at the multitude at night
neither were the fortifications improvised nor rushed by the enemy
the multitude of the strongholds of the enemy should suddenly, or by night, would fly to the
aut interdiu tela in nostros operi destinatos conicere possent.
or that they would be able to convey our weapons to their destinations
nor would our men corner the weapons against the work's destinations
nor by day would they be able to throw weapons against our men occupied with the works.
duas fossas quindecim pedes latas,
eadem altitudine perduxit,
he dug out two ditches 15 feet wide and the same in height
two trenches brought forth 15 foot soldiers to the heights
quarum interiorem campestribus ac demissis locis
aqua ex flumine derivata complevit.
he filled the river's water all the way up to the fields and low spots in the interior
the plains of the interior, and the insertion of the places of which
the water from the river which flowed they were ended.
the interior of these, with their level and low places, he filled with water drawn from the river
Post eas aggerem ac vallum duodecim pedum exstruxit
Behind them he builds a hill and a valley with twelve foot soldiers
After them, he extruded a mound and a valley for twelve feet
Behind these he raised a rampart and wall twelve feet high
Huic loricam pinnasque adiecit grandibus cervis eminentibus
to this he added a fence and battlements jutting out with enormous stag-horns
to this he attached a breastplate and wings with a giant surging stag
To this he added a large stag, and to eminent examples of this on the breastplate of
ad commissuras pluteorum atque aggeris
ad the point where leaden weights fell down
to the junctures of the seige-covers and battlements
at the commisioners of Pluto's anger
<qui ascensum hostium tardarent>
Google translate says this means
"to prevent the enemy from scaling it"
The real translation is:
"which might slow down the ascent of the enemies."
Google gets what wrong?
it doesn't get the overall purpose of the defensive structures correct but it is literally correct for instance, "tardarent" means to prevent
it gets the overall meaning correct, but isn't literally correct, for instance, "tardarent" means to slow down
"turres toto opere circumdedit"
--> google translate says it means "the entire work with the towers"
Google translate totally didn't translate one of the Latin words. What part of speech is the word that google translate entirely forgot about?
noun plural d.o. "turres"
adjective singular ablative "toto"
noun singular ablative "opere"
verb "circumdedit"
quae pedes LXXX inter se distarent
How many feet apart were the towers?
30
50
18
80
