XXVI.
Sed discordis animos multa efferabant: inopia stipendii frumentique et simul dilectum tributaque Galliae aspernantes, Rhenus incognita illi caelo (illi caelo: ‘for that climate’) siccitate vix navium patiens, (navium patiens: lit. ‘supportive of ships’) arti commeatus, dispositae per omnem ripam stationes quae Germanos vado arcerent, (quae Germanos vado arcerent: ‘which would discourage the Germans from fording the river’; subjunctive for rel. clause expressing design.) eademque de causa minus frugum et plures qui consumerent. (plures qui consumerent: subjunctive in rel. clause of characteristic: the sense is consecutive; see G. 631.) apud imperitos prodigii loco (prodigii loco: ‘by way of a prodigy’ or ‘as a prodigy’) accipiebatur ipsa aquarum penuria, tamquam (tamquam: ‘as if’ or ‘as though’. The comparison being unreal, the mood is the subjunctive, Cf. G. 602.) nos amnes quoque et vetera imperii munimenta desererent: quod in pace fors seu natura, tunc fatum et ira dei vocabatur. Ingressis Novaesium (Novaesium: modern Neuss, SW of Dusseldorf) sexta decima legio coniungitur. additus Voculae in partem curarum (in partem curarum: = pro sua parte curarum: ‘for his own share of the burden [of command]’) Herennius Gallus (Herennius Gallus: Gallus is first mentioned in ch. 19 as the commander of the First legion at Bonn. Here he is at the head of the Sixteenth legion.) legatus; nec ausi ad hostem pergere * * (ad hostem pergere * *: a short lacuna in the original text occurs at this point, without significant loss of meaning.) (loco Gelduba nomen est) (loco Gelduba nomen est: lit. ‘the place has Gelduba as a name.’ Gelduba is modern Gellep, NW of Dusseldorf, just east of Krefeld.) castra fecere. ibi struenda acie, (struenda acie: preferable to the gerund struendo aciem in that the gerundive denotes duty, obligation, with the sense of ‘how a battle line should be formed’. ) muniendo vallandoque et ceteris belli meditamentis (meditamentis: ostensibly, first recorded use of the word) militem firmabant. utque praeda ad virtutem accenderetur, (utque praeda ad virtutem accenderetur: ‘to the end that, with the prospect of plunder, their fighting spirit might be kindled’) in proximos Cugernorum (Cugernorum: the Cugerni were the descendants of the Sugambri that were resettled by Tiberius to the west bank of the Rhine in 8 B.C., in the area around and to the south of Castra Vetera, between the Batavi to the north and the Ubii to the south, near Cologne.) pagos, qui societatem Civilis acceperant, ductus a Vocula exercitus; pars cum Herennio Gallo permansit.