LXI.
Inter magnorum virorum discrimina, pudendum dictu, (pudendum dictu: ‘shameful in the saying’, use of abl. supine after certain adjectives, in this case a gerundive) Mariccus quidam, e plebe Boiorum, (e plebe Boiorum: a Gallic tribe occupying the area between the rivers Loire and Allier, west of Dijon and south of Nevers) inserere sese fortunae et provocare arma Romana simulatione numinum ausus est. iamque adsertor Galliarum (adsertor Galliarum: ‘protector of the Gallic Nations’) et deus (nam id sibi indiderat) concitis octo milibus hominum proximos Aeduorum pagos trahebat, (concitis octo milibus hominum proximos Aeduorum pagos trahebat: ‘eight thousand men having been collected, he was attracting to his cause the nearest villages of the Aedui’. The Aedui lived east of the Boii, their capital being Augustodunum, modern Autun. ) cum gravissima civitas electa iuventute, adiectis a Vitellio cohortibus, fanaticam multitudinem disiecit. (cum …disiecit: temporal cum takes perfect indicative.) captus in eo proelio Mariccus; ac mox feris obiectus quia non laniabatur, (quia non laniabatur: quia, like quod or quando, takes indicative, unlike causal cum.) stolidum vulgus inviolabilem credebat, donec spectante Vitellio interfectus est. (donec …interfectus est: for donec + indicative, cf. note for donec omnes inviolati digrederentur in ch. 49.)