PART II

EASY EXERCISES IN CONNECTED LATIN WRITING
THE STORY OF THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF THE GALLIC WAR

EXERCISE 1

bring together,^ cogo, -ere, coegi,  powerful {adj.), potens, -entis.
 

coactum.
case 2 (at law), causa, -ae,/.
court, iudicium, -i, n.
narrow, angustus, -a, -um.
plead (a case),  dico,  -ere,  dixi,

dictum.
 

previously,^ antea, ante.

shut   in,^    contineo,    -ere,    -ui,

-tentum.
summon, voco, I.
trial, iudicium, -i, n.
vassal,^ cliens, -entis, m.
 

Synonyms, i. assemble, collect. 2. cause. 3. before. 4. bound,
confine, hem in.    5.  retainer.

When Caesar arrived in Gaul he at once heard that all the
Helvetii were preparing to leave their territories because their
land was shut in on all sides by high mountains and they con¬
sidered ^ their territories too narrow. A few years previously ^
a certain Orgetorix had persuaded them, to try to get control of
the government of all Gaul. But there is no doubt^ that he also
tried to make himself too powerful, so that^ the Helvetii, after ^
learning of his plans, summoned him before ^ the court. He was
unwilling to plead his case, and accordingly he brought together
to the trial all his vassals and escaped.^ A short time afterward
he died.

I. Use arbitror. 2. In expressions involving measure of difference (71),
ante and post are used, not antea and postea. 3. 121. 4. Use a result
clause or a clause with quam ob rem. 5. Abl. absolute. 6. in w. ace.
7.  Say ' rescued himself.'    Apply 218, n. 2 here and throughout.

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