Chapter 5.25

Assassination of Tasgetius.

Carnutes, Carnutum, m. pl.: the Carnutes, who lived in the vicinity of Chartres (Allen & Greenough).

Tasgetius, -i m. One of his coins.

summo loco natus: 'born in the highest station', i. e., of a royal family (Harkness). loco is abl. of source, or origin (Hodges)(A&G 403.a).

Huic: indirect object of restituerat. This act of restoring chiefs exiled by the democracy of the tribes was peculiarly odious to the Gauls, as here appears (Allen & Greenough).

in se: 'toward him', i. e., toward Caesar (Harkness).

hunc annum regnantem: 'in this year, which was the third of his reign' (Moberly).

palam multis ex civitate auctoribus: ‘in the presence and with the consent of a large number of the people’ (Moberly); 'with the avowed sanction of many of the citizens' (Rice Holmes). The text given here is that of Rice Holmes. The OCT preserves and obelizes the unintelligible reading of manuscript a: inimicis iam multis palam ex civitate et eis auctoribus eum.

quod ad plures pertinebat: 'because several persons were concerned.' Literally, 'because it pertained to more persons than one' (Anthon)

quorum: the antecedent is hos. (Allen & Greenough)

perventum: impersonal passive. Supply esse (Harkness)(A&G 208.d).

in hiberna perventum etc.: 'that they had reached their respective quarters, and that a place for wintering in had been fortified by each' (Anthon).

hibernis: dat. (Hodges)(A&G 382).