Language focus: passive and deponent forms
Anteā L. Cassius
cōnsul necātus est atque exercitus Rōmānus ab Helvētiīs repulsus
sub iugum est missus. Caesar eīs rēbus mōtus Helvētiōs iter per
prōvinciam nostram facere prohibuit. Inde hostēs, eā spē dēiectī, trānsgredī
cōnābantur; profectī igitur omnibus cum cōpiīs ad flūmen Rhodanum
convēnērunt; ibi nāvēs ab Helvētiīs iunctae sunt ratēsque multae sunt
factae. Sed hostēs, suās cōpiās trādūcere cōnātī, mūnītiōne et
tēlīs mīlitum sunt repulsī. Itaque ūna per Sēquanōs via relinquēbātur.
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Earlier, the consul Lucius Cassius was killed, and the Roman army, having been driven back by the Helvetii, was sent under the yoke. Caesar, moved by these events, forbade the Helvetii to make a route through our province. Then the enemy, having been cast down from that hope, were attempting to cross; having set out, therefore, they came with all their forces to the river Rhone; there ships were joined together by the Helvetii, and many rafts were made. But the enemy, having attempted to lead their forces across, were driven back by the fortification and the weapons of the soldiers. And so one route through the Sequani was left.
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