AP Latin Quiz
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ANALYZE LATIN POETRY AND PROSE
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Read the excerpt below (Caesar, De Bello Gallico; late Republican prose). Context: Caesar frames discipline as prudent restraint, persuading readers his caution is strength.
Latin (line numbers):
1. Cum hostes acrius instarent, nostri paulisper cesserunt,
2. non quod virtute superari possent, sed quod loco premebantur.
3. Caesar, animadvertens ordines turbari,
4. centuriones appellat et singulos cohortatur.
5. "Consistite," inquit, "et signa servate;
6. neque temere iniquo loco confligite."
7. Ipse in prima acie versatur, ut milites eum videre possint,
8. nec se periculo subtrahit, sed rationem ducem facit.
9. Itaque, restitutis animis, paulatim loco cedentis recipiunt,
10. et hostes, spe celeris victoriae frustrati, resistunt minus.
11. Hoc uno tempore plus profuit moderatio quam impetus.
12. Quod si quis audacius processerat, revocabat.
Glossary: instare = "press hard"; premere = "hem in"; ordines = "ranks"; confligere = "fight"; acies = "battle line"; subtrahere = "withdraw"; frustrari = "be disappointed"; moderatio = "self-control."
How does Caesar convey disciplined restraint as strategic superiority in lines 5–11?
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