Etsecundumeamultaereseumhortabanturquaresibieamremcogitandametsuscipiendamputaret,inprimisquodHaeduos,fratresconsanguineosquesaepenumeroasenatuappellatos,inservituteatque[in]dicionevidebatGermanorumtenerieorumqueobsidesesseapudAriovistumacSequanosintellegebat;quodintantoimperiopopuliRomaniturpissimumsibietreipublicaeessearbitrabatur.
and, besides those statements, many circumstances induced him to think that this affair ought to be considered and taken up by him; especially as he saw that the Aedui, styled [as they had been] repeatedly by the senate brethren and kinsmen, were held in the thraldom and dominion of the Germans, and understood that their hostages were with Ariovistus and the Sequani, which in so mighty an empire [as that] of the Roman people he considered very disgraceful to himself and the republic.
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