C. Iulius Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.29

The army is camped on the British shore, the warships hauled up on the beach and the transports riding at anchor, on the night of a full moon. The passage covers the tide and the storm at the anchorage, and the army's position for the coming winter.

 

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eādem nocte lūna plēna erat. tum aqua maris maximē crēscit. sed nostrī mīlitēs hoc nesciēbant.

 

Caesar longās nāvēs in terram subdūxerat. hae nāvēs exercitum trānsportāverant. nunc aqua maris eās complēvit. aliae nāvēs ad ancorās stābant. tempestās eās pellēbat. mīlitēs nostrī nihil facere poterant. auxilium quoque dare nōn poterant.

 

multae nāvēs frāctae sunt. aliae nāvēs ancorās āmīsērunt. nāvigāre nōn poterant. itaque omnēs mīlitēs timēbant.

 

nūllae aliae nāvēs aderant. mīlitēs igitur in Galliam redīre nōn poterant. nāvēs quoque reficere nōn poterant, quod omnia deërant. omnēs enim anteā dīxerant: “in Galliā hiemābimus.” itaque nēmō frūmentum parāverat.

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