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Plutarch

Caesar Section 3

Section 208 of 288

Canonical reference 52.3

Ancient Greek

εἴτε καὶ σπουδῇ τὸν οἰωνὸν οἰκειούμενος, εἴτε καὶ σπουδῇ τὸν οἰωνὸν οἰκειούμενος, ἦν γὰρ καὶ παρʼ αὐτῷ τις ἄνθρωπος ἄλλως μὲν εὐκαταφρόνητος καὶ παρημελημένος, οἰκίας δὲ τῆς Ἀφρικανῶν Σκηπίων ἐκαλεῖτο Σαλλουστίων, τοῦτον ἐν ταῖς μάχαις προέταττεν ὥσπερ ἡγεμόνα τῆς στρατιᾶς, ἀναγκαζόμενος πολλάκις ἐξάπτεσθαι Τῶν πολεμίων καὶ φιλομαχεῖν.

English

Bernadotte Perrin, 1919

or else tried in good earnest to appropriate to himself the omen, it is hard to say which. He had under him, namely, a man who otherwise was a contemptible nobody, but belonged to the family of the Africani, and was called Scipio Sallustio. This man Caesar put in the forefront of his battles as if commander of the army, being compelled to attack the enemy frequently and to force the fighting.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13

ou bien il tenta sérieusement de s’approprier le présage ; il est difficile de dire laquelle de ces deux explications est la bonne. Il avait en effet sous ses ordres un homme qui, à tous autres égards, n’était qu’un personnage méprisable et sans importance, mais qui appartenait à la famille des Africains et se nommait Scipion Sallustio. César plaçait cet homme au premier rang dans ses batailles, comme s’il commandait l’armée, car il était contraint d’attaquer fréquemment l’ennemi et de le forcer au combat.

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