quod non sine summo timore et desperatione id factum videbatur.
litotes - double negative - because not without the greatest fear and desperation it seemed it was done
monere, orare Titurium pro hospitio ut....
asyndeton - lack of "et" with the two infinitives: they warn, they beg Titurius on behalf of their friendship to....
Lucio Pisone, Aulo Gabinio consulibus
asyndeton - lack of "et" (with Lucius Pisone, Aulus Gabinius as consuls)
hic dies de nostris contraversiis iudicabit
personification - this day will judge about our arguments
oppida sua omnia, numero ad duodecim, vicos ad quadrigentos, reliqua privata aedificia incentunt
asyndeton (lack of et) - they burn all their towns, to a number to 12, villages to forty, remaining private buildings
necessario adversa nocte in altum provectae continentem petierunt (adversa nocte)
personification - it is necessary to sail with the night opposed
omnem esse in armis Galliam
hyperbaton - when words that go together are spread out - omnem Galliam - that all Gall is in arms
fama nobiles potentesque bello (in reputation notable, and powerful in war)
chiasmus - ABBA
centuriones ex eo, quo stabant, loco recesserunt
hyperbaton - when words that go together are spread out - ex eo loco - the centurions went back from that place in which they were standing
non aetate confectis, non mulieribus, non infantibus pepercerunt (two)
anaphora - repetition of "non"; asyndeton - "they spared not the aged, not the women, not the children"
Persuadent Rauracis et Tulingis et Latrobrigis finitimis ut cum eis profiscantur
polysyndeton - et - et (they persuade the Rauraci and the Tulingis and the Latrobrgi, their neighbors, to set out with them
equos sustinere et brevi moderari ac flectere et per temonem percurrere et in iugo....
polysyndeton - et - ac - et - et
Succurrit inimicus illi Vorenus et laboranti subvenit.
synchesis/interlocked word order - inimicus illi Vorenus laboranti - Vorenus as an enemy, runs up and helps that one struggling
Omnia excogitantur, quare nec sine periculo maneatur,....
litotes - affirmation through negative/double negative - and not without - they were thinking out all things, and why without danger they were not staying
Perfacile factu esse illis probat conata perficere, propterea quod ipse...
alliteration - p and f - he demonstrates to them that it is very easy to do....
minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant (and very seldom do merchants often visit them)
litotes - affirmation through negation - minime "very seldom" negates saepe "often"
fidem et ius iurandum (good faith and an oath)
hendiadys - use of two nouns where noun + genitive or adj might be expected such as "a pledge of good faith bound by oath"
obsides daturos quaeque imperasset facturos sese polliciti sunt
ellipsis (leaving out of essential words) - leaving out "esse" with daturos/factuors, which are future active infinitives
Nam et navium figura et remorum motu et inusitatio genere ormentorum permoti barbari
polysyndeton - et - et - et
neque tam imperitum esse rerum ut non sciret (and he was not so unversed in affairs as not to know)
litotes - affirmation of an idea through the negation of its opposite - double negatives