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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | Latin term or phrase: Nobis a maioribus nostris hic mos traditus est: Helvetii obsides accipiunt non d | Helvetii, si Caesari tum cessissent , meliorem fortunam invenissent. Sed insolenter responderunt:
"Nobis a maioribus nostris hic mos traditus est: Helvetii obsides accipiunt,
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2 days6 hrs confidence: "This usage has been handed down to us from our forefathers, that Helvetians take hostaqges, (but) d
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Helvetii, si Caesari tum cessissent, meliorem fortunam invenissent. Sed insolenter responderunt: "Nobis a maioribus nostris hic mos traditus est: Helvetii obsides accipiunt,
non dant"
If the Helvetians had submitted to Caesar at that time, they would have met with better luck. But they haughtily replied, "This practice has been handed down to us from our forefathers, that Helvetians take hostages, (but) do not give (them)."
'Helvetii, si Caesari tum cessissent, meliorem fortunam invenissent' is a past unreal (contrary to fact) condition; hence the pluperfect subjunctive in both protasis and apodosis.
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