LXV.
Agrippinenses sumpto consultandi spatio, (sumpto consultandi spatio:abl. abs.: ‘time for consulting having been taken’; consultandi is gen. gerund expressing purpose after spatium.) quando neque subire condiciones metus futuri neque palam aspernari condicio praesens sinebat, (quando neque subire condiciones metus futuri neque palam aspernari condicio praesens sinebat: ‘since neither fear of the future permitted to accept the conditions nor did their present situation [permit] that they be openly rejected’; causal quando is regularly with the indicative.) in hunc modum respondent: ‘quae prima libertatis facultas data est, avidius quam cautius sumpsimus, (quae prima libertatis facultas data est …sumpsimus: ellipsis for eam libertatis facultatem sumpsimus, quae prima data est) ut vobis ceterisque Germanis, consanguineis nostris, iungeremur. muros civitatis, congregantibus se cum maxime Romanorum exercitibus, (congregantibus se cum maxime Romanorum exercitibus: abl. abs.: ‘Roman armies massing themselves at this very moment’; cum maxime is idiom, ‘at this very moment’.) augere nobis quam diruere tutius est. si qui ex Italia aut provinciis alienigenae in finibus nostris fuerant, eos bellum absumpsit vel in suas quisque sedis refugerunt. (si qui ex Italia aut provinciis alienigenae in finibus nostris fuerant, eos bellum absumpsit vel in suas quisque sedis refugerunt: conditional sentence with condition represented as a fact in past time: indicative in both protasis and apodosis; alienigenae: ‘foreigners’, ‘people born in another country’; in suas quisque sedis: ‘each to his own country’; quisque has often plural sense.) deductis olim et nobiscum per conubium sociatis quique mox provenerunt haec patria est; (deductis olim et nobiscum per conubium sociatis quique mox provenerunt haec patria est: ‘for those who settled here in former days and united with us in marriage and those born to them later, this colony is their native land’; deductis olim: lit. ‘for those led here long ago as settlers’; in fact the colony had been founded only twenty years earlier, in 50 A.D.; quique mox provenerunt: short for et eis qui mox provenerunt) nec vos adeo iniquos existimamus ut interfici a nobis parentes fratres liberos nostros velitis. (nec vos adeo iniquos existimamus ut interfici a nobis parentes fratres liberos nostros velitis: consecutive sentence with verb of the dependent clause in the subjunctive: ‘we do not consider you unjust to such a degeee as to require that our parents, brothers, and children be put to death by us’. a nobis is abl. of agent with passive interfici.) vectigal et onera commerciorum resolvimus: sint transitus incustoditi sed diurni et inermes, (sint transitus incustoditi sed diurni et inermes: sint is hortatory subjunctive: ‘let comings and goings be unchecked, but during daylight and without arms’.) donec nova et recentia iura vetustate in consuetudinem vertuntur. (donec nova et recentia iura vetustate in consuetudinem vertuntur: ‘until the new and recently introduced rules become habitual on account of long use’; donec with indicative has the sense of ‘until the moment when’, with subjunctive the sense of ‘waiting for the moment when’; the latter case involves the suggestion of yearning, expectation, suspense, etc. which calls for the use of subjunctive.) arbitrum habebimus Civilem et Veledam, apud quos pacta sancientur.’ sic lenitis Tencteris (lenitis Tencteris: ‘the Tencteri having been mollified’) legati ad Civilem ac Veledam missi cum donis cuncta ex voluntate Agrippinensium perpetravere; sed coram adire adloquique Veledam negatum: arcebantur aspectu quo venerationis plus inesset. (arcebantur aspectu quo venerationis plus inesset: ‘they were prevented from seeing her, that thereby more awe be attached [to her].’ quo replaces ut in purpose clauses; venerationis is partitive gen. after the neuter plus.) ipsa edita in turre; (edita in turre: ‘situated in a tower’; turre is an alternate form of turri.) delectus e propinquis consulta responsaque ut internuntius numinis portabat.