Vocabulary: Caesar, Bk 5: 40-41

Confestim

immediately

Perfero, -ferre, tuli, latus

deliver, carry through

Obsideo, -ere, obsedi, obsessus

besiege (verb)

Obsessus

besieged

Deinceps

in turn

Fio, fieri, factus sum

become, happen (often used as a passive of facio)

Tenuis, tenue

delicate

Valetudinis, valetudine

health

Concursus, -us

assembly

Parco, ere

spare

Incolumnis, -e

unharmed

Per se

by themselves, on their own

Metus, -us

fear

Quicumque, quaecumque, quodcumque

whoever/whatever

Modo

only, just

Consuetudo, -dinis

custom, customary practice, habit

Cicero ad haec unum modo respondit, non esse consuetudinem populi Romani accipere ab hoste amato condicionem

To this Cicero responds just this one thing, that it is not the custom of the Roman people to accept a condition from an armed enemy. (indirect statement)