• Made one small note, Mr. A, 2008-05-19, 7:52 a.m.
After the death of Orgetorix the Helvetians nevertheless try - ?(Tense)? - to do that which they had decided and they prepared to go out from their territories.(...the Helvetians nevertheless were trying to do that wich they had decdided and prepared to go to the edge of their lands.) After the death of Orgetorix the Helvetians nonetheless tried to make that journey that they had decided, and prepared to go out from their lands.
After the death of Orgetorix the Helvetians nevertheless (less by nothing - ablative of degree of difference) tried to do that which they had decided and they (not needed--the subject is still "Helvetians")
    • prepared to depart from their territory.
When at last they themselves considered preparing to set out, all their strongholds,
When at last they thought themselves prepared to set out, they burned all of their towns, 20 in quantity, their villages, 400 in quantity, and the rest of the private buildings. When at last they believed themselves to be prepared for departure, they set fire to the remaining private buildings, all their strongholds, about 10 in number, and about 400 towns. Now when they believed themselves to be prepared to set out, they set fire to the rest of the private buildings, all their walled towns, 20 in number, and 400 villages.
When now they had deemed (decided, or thought) that they were prepared (had been prepared, or prepared themselves) for departure, they set fire to all their towns, about 12 in number, and their villages, about 400, and their remaning private buildings. (Asyndeton - lack of conjunctions)

They burned all of the grain, besides that having been carried themselves. And all the grain, besides that they had with them, they burned up.

They burned all the (their) grain besides what (that which) they were going to (about to, or intending to) carry with them.

They did these things so that they killed hope of returning home and prepared? to undergo all the dangers?? (they prepared to submit to all dangers.) They did this so that they could kill the hope of returning home, ???? and prepare to submit to all danger. ??? (They did this so that they were removing the hope of returning home and had undergone the preparations for all dangers.)

They did these things so that they would remove (in order to remove) hope of returning home, and so that they would be (in order to be) more (better) prepared for undergoing all dangers (for all dangers to be undergone).

??? For three months they were ordered to carry ground rations with themselves from home (quemque????) ??? For 3 months they ordered themselves to bring ground rations from home.

They ordered everyone to bring out from home ground rations for three months (three months worth of ground rations) for himself.

They persuaded the Rauraci, Tulingi, and Latobrigi, their neighbors, that, after having burnt their towns and food, they should set out together with them.

They persuaded the Rauraci, Tulingi, and Latobrigi, their neighbors, after their towns and villages had been burned, that they should set out together with them.

The Bohemians, who had crossed the Rhine and attacked Noreja, recieved them and joined with them as allies.

They received the Bohemians to themselves, who had crossed the Rhine and attacked Noreja, and added them as allies to themselves.

After Orgetorixs' death the Helvetians nevertheless (because)? decided to make attempts
and they themselves prepared the burn up. When at last they prepared they were believing,
of all the walled towns, the number was at 12, villages at 400, they burned the remaining private building. All of the grain, except,because tehy were bringing favor, they were burned.**


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