Language focus: passive and deponent forms
Inde eae gentēs,
eōdem consiliō ūsāe, omnia oppida et aedificia incendērunt atque cum
Helvētiīs proficīscī cōnstituērunt. Erant duo itinera: ūnum per
Sēquanōs, angustum et difficile, inter montem Iūram et flūmen Rhodanum; propter
altitūdinem montis paucī multōs facile prohibēre poterant; alterum per
prōvinciam nostram, multō facilius, quod inter fīnēs Helvētiōrum et Allobrogum,
quī superātī erant, Rhodanus fluit, atque cōpiae nōnullīs locīs trādūcī
possunt. Genāva est extrēmum oppidum Allobrogum et proximum fīnibus
Helvētiōrum.
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Then those peoples, having used the same plan, burned all their towns and buildings and decided to set out with the Helvetii. There were two routes: one through the Sequani, narrow and difficult, between Mount Jura and the river Rhône; because of the height of the mountain, a few men could easily prevent many; the other through our province, much easier, because between the territory of the Helvetii and that of the Allobroges, who had been defeated, the Rhône flows, and forces can be led across at several places. Geneva is the furthest town of the Allobroges and nearest to the borders of the Helvetii.
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