LXIII.
Et Treviros quidem ut socios securi adiere: Divoduri (Mediomatricorum (Divoduri … Mediomatricorum: Divodurum is modern Metz; the Mediomatrici lived on both sides of the Moselle between the Treveri to the north and the Leuci, mentioned in next chapter, to the south.) id oppidum est) quamquam omni comitate exceptos subitus pavor terruit, raptis repente armis ad caedem innoxiae civitatis, non ob praedam aut spoliandi cupidine, sed furore et rabie (furore et rabie: perhaps hendiadys) et causis incertis eoque difficilioribus remediis, donec precibus ducis mitigati ab excidio civitatis temperavere; (donec … temperavere: donec requires indicative to denote an actual event; cf. B. 293.) caesa tamen ad quattuor milia hominum. isque terror Gallias invasit ut venienti mox agmini universae civitates cum magistratibus et precibus (cum magistratibus et precibus: hendiadys, ‘with their magistrates imploring …’) occurrerent, (is terror … ut … occurrerent: is has here the force of talis: ‘such terror … that they would rush to meet …’; see rule for tenses of consecutive clauses given at the end of previous chapter.) stratis per vias feminis puerisque: quaeque alia placamenta hostilis irae, non quidem in bello (non quidem in bello: ‘and indeed not in a war’, i.e. ‘not beacause there was a war on’) sed pro pace tendebantur.