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58. 7 DE BELLO GALLICO LIB. V Io ISub castris eius vagabatur, alias ut situm caStrorum cognOSceret, alias colloquendi aut territandi causa: equites plerumque omnes tela intra vallum Coniciebant. Labienus suos intra munitionem continebat timorisque opinionem, quibuscumque poterat rebuS, UgObRt. 59 Cum maiore in dies contemptione Indutiomarus ad CRStra accederet, nocte una intromissis equitibus omnium finitimarum civitatum, quo arceSSendos CuraVerat. AntR diligentia omnes suos Custodiis intra castra Continuit, Ut nulla ratione ea res enuntiari aut ad Treveros perferri. POSSCt. Interim e Consuetudine cotidiana Indutiomarus ad Castra accedit atque ibi magnam partem diei consumit; equites tela coniciunt et magna cum contumelias Verborum noStros ad pugnam evocant. Nullo ab nostris dat reSponso, ubi visum est, Sub vesperum dispersi ac
dissipati iiscedunt Subit, Labienui duabus sortis eat ot
omnem equitatum emittit praecipit atque InterclICit,
proterritis hostibus atque in fugam coniectis quod fore, sicut accidit, videbat unum omnes peterent Indutiomarum, ne qui quem prius Vulneret, quam illum intersectum viderit, quod mora reliquorum Spatium nactum illum effugere nolebat magna proponit iS, qui Occiderint, praemia submittit cohortes equitibus Subsidio. Comprobat hominis consilium fortuna, et Um Unum Omne peterent, in ipso fluminis vado deprehensus Indutiomarus interficitur, caputque eius resertur in CaStra redeunte equiteS, QUOS POSSunt. ConSOctantur atque CCt- dunt. Hac re cognita omnes Eburonum et Nerviorum, quae OnVenerant, copiae discedunt, pauloque habuit
post id factum Caesar quietiorem Galliam.
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THI book constitutes in iiset a single episode so the Summero B. C. 83 was almost holi devote by Caesar o takin ven-geance o the Eburones an to the purguit-unsu CeSSsul to thelast of Ambiorix. In view of the threatenin aspectis assair in aut Caesar'sirst Care was to repat the losses totis army. Heuaised levi es through his own lieuienanis, and go Pompeius to en him a legion hichha been atready enrosse in Cisalpine aut so that elare thewinter RS Ver there ere three ne legion to replace the legionan a half tha ha been lost unde Sabinus. Though Indutiomarus ad been lain, his hinsmen carri edon the wor he had egun. The intrigued illi the Germans
and ad Common cause illi Ambiorix. Caesar Dun himself threatene on very fide. The Nervii, Aduatuci, an Menapii, together illi the Germaniwellers o the ea si de of the Rhine, were pent in arm the Senone an Carnutes had shown theirdigassectio ; hile the Treveri might at an time succee in theirendeavou to induce more Germans to CroS the Rhine. Promptactio seeme tot Called for So before the inter had run ut, Caesar made a sudde inroad into the Countr of the Nervii, thereb reducing that tribe to submiSSion. In the early Spring, a cordin to his ont, e calle a Counci os aul-he oes not
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Sa Where, ut e may assume that it Was at his headquarters of Samarobriva- and finding that the Senones, Carnutes, and Treveridi not attend considere thi tote equivalent to a declaration ofwar. He therelare brohe poli Counci an ordere it o meet again a Paris, hich wa a convenient oin sor operatin against
the Senones Sens). The rapidit of his movement induce boththis tribe and their eighbour the Carnutes Chartres to sue sormercy through the Aedui an Remi. Caesar, anxious noto bedetained grante i so the time. The he hel the counci and
ordere cavalrydrom the State S. Caesar a no Dee o devote his attention entiret to the scheme of vengeance e meditate d. There a no hance of
Ambiorix meet in his in therae ld the question a how o Calchhim. The country to the wes of his as in Caesar' hands, ut he might escape orthward into the territor of the Menapii, land of wood an marshes, hos inhabitanis ad neve sentam basSador to Caesar, or east ard to the Germans acros the
Rhine, it whom the fugitive chiestain ad entere into friendlyrelation through the Treveri. Loth these contingencie had toleguarde against For operations in these directions Amiens agno longe fuit able a a base Caesar heresore transferre thebaggage of the whol arm to the Cam o Labienus in or ear
equipped legion marched against the Menapii, and havin enteredihel Count in three divisions made sucii avo o it a to cauSethem to ask for tems, whicli,ere granted o the expres Conditionthat the wouldio harbour Ambiorix. Meanwhile Labienus ad been a energeti an succesSsul asCaesar. The Treveria ad been o the potnt of attachin his single legion illi large orces both of hors and laot, hen the learnithat it ad been reinforced by two thers. his newS ad themat rs destrous of wait in for the Germans, hoSe id the were eXpecting. ut the wil lieuienant as able, as Sual by orhingupo thei Sel DconfidenCe, to dra them into ait SaStrou Mengage-ment, hic was followed by the surrender of the state so that when thei allies arrived there a noth in for them toto but togo home again. The insmen o Indutiomarus ent Wit them, and the govemment achande diverrio Cingetorix.
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The indications os localit in connexion it theSe movement Sare so faint a to des Conjecture. I may be mentione howevertha Napoleon III assumes the rive mentione in , have been the urthe, a tributar of the euSe. Havin barre the retreat of Ambiorix to the noriti it a nowCaesar' objectrio Cutis his escape to the east. At the fame timethe id sent by the Germans to the Treveri seeme to ali fora Ounter demonstration. Accordingi he again Constructe abridge ver the Rhine, at a potnt a litile higherrumilia the formerone, an CrOSSed nCe more into German territory. The Ubii atonC Sent an embassy to lea themselves Domat suspicio ofantagoni Sm to the Romans It was the Suebi the Sald, ho hadsent id to the Treveri. ut the Suebi had retirexto the confineso a vas forest hicli separate them Do the Cherusci, and thither Caesaria no minesto follow them. t has been remarhedwith hat ar the account of Gaul an Germany Clis. II-28 hasbeen introduce at this potnt o Cove the Complete absence of incident durin Caesar' secondista acrOS the Rhine. artis itis a repetition o wha ha been sal in the beginning o Book IV about the Suebi. o long this secon sta laste Caesar has no thought fit to tellis. O returning to aut he destroyed onlythat par of the ridge hicli ouched the ank of the Ubii,
leavin t elue cohoris to uar the remainde a a standingmenace of the possibilit of his return. At Caesar' energies ere o devote to the direct ursui os Ambiorix. Turning ac fro the Rhine through the fores of Arduenna Ardennes), hicli the reache iis anhs, e sent hi SCavair in advanc unde L. Minucius Basilus, hom he instructedio allo no res in the cam les the should attraci the notice of the enemy. o much despatCli an secree were employed that
his Coach an horses ere ei ged, but he himself escaped thankSto the fidelit of his retainers, ho held ac therio long noughto enabi their loro to mount his hors and ride way into the wΟOdS. Ambiorix madem attempto resistance, but proclaimeda auis qui eut. His eoplerae in various directions an his sellow-chie Catuvolcus too refuge in the grave. Tw of the Cisrhenane German tribes, the Segni an Condrusi,no Sent to a that he had not ahen part illi their country-
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men in aiding the Eburones, and tote that thei territorie might therelare e pared. The equest a grante o conditio that the deli veredi mali Eburonian fugitives. The worio revenge a no-toaegin As his headquarter in the scheme o devastation e meditate Caesar hos Aduatuca, the ver place here Sabinus an Cotta ad pitched their ill-fated Cam the ear besore. The mens it might e thought were against his selection, ut Caesar ad hi reasons Aduatuca was a stronghold, it was a centra pol ni in the territor of the Eburones, and the Roman work of the revi ous year could stili e utili sed for defence. Ad the aggage of the arm Was deposite here, and Quintus Cicero as est in charge of it illi the Murteenth legion, one of those levie at the egi nning of the ear, and 2 Cavalry. The in rem aining legion were divide equali belween Caesar himself, Labienus, and Trebonius. Os these Labienus en north-west in the directio of the Menapii, Trebonius outh-west in thato the Aduatuci, hil Caesar imself,ent due est toward the EScaut o Schelde. The underStanding a that the were ali oreturn to Aduatuca illi in Six nys sto the time of tarting. Caesar' destre t injure the enem Was tempered by care fortisown men, ho might be ut Dindividuali in the oods, i theystrayed in earch o booty. With a viewaheresore t hvsbanding the lives of the legionaries he sent ut a genera invitation to thesurround ing tribes to Come and tali par in pillaging the Eburones. During this positionis affair an incident too place hicli forci blyillustrate the hances of war, an serve to ob Quintus Cicero offome of the laureis hichae had Woni hi previ ous energy. It was atready the Sixth, or, a the Roman put it, the eventii, da Since the de parture o Caesar, and this as also the da onwhicli a fresi suppi o com ought tot serve out to the oldierswho remaine on garrisoni uty. There ere temptin Com-land Sin the vicini ty, separate sto the cam only by a single hili. Cicero, ho prio no had arefuit hept his en illi in Camp, attength ieide to their clamo urs, an allowe hal his legion ofra recruit to go ut o sorage. The were accompani e bya large bod os camp-sollowers and by Sonae 3 veteran S, holad been est in garrisonos invalids, ut ad recovered illiin thelas se days. No it so appene that et, O horSemen of the
Sugambri, the German tribe ho ad sheltere the Usipetes and
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Tencteri, ad accepte Caesar' invitation to tunder, and adat ready harrie some catile of the Eburones. ut the were notparticular a to the ource henc thei spoli came, an having been informe by a captive that Caesar' headquarter could berea hed in three hours, an hau been est poori guarded the hadgleelati seire the opportunit an rode u to the decuman ate juS at this mos awkward moment. There a a ii pani in the camp, an ii as illi difficuli that the gales ere heldagainst them Fortunatet for the Romans the brave Centurion, Publius Sextius Baculus, ad been est invalide in the garrison.
Though so ill that he had been ithout Dod sor sive days, heseige arm sto the bystander an too his place at the gate. He ad Oon to e carrie o in a woon, ut his example aSsollowed by the ther centurions of the cohor o duty, and themen gaine Courage to alae thei places o the works an preSenta appearnnce of defenCe. Meanti me the v cohoris, ho adno done their foraging, cauillit the ound of houtin in the distance. Unused to a the looked to theirim cerisor direction, hut et illi nothing ut disma an divide counseis, hile theenem y percei ving their mali numbers, prompti attache them. The veterans made a successsu dast for the cam and were followed by the camp-followers an Cavalry but the re ruits, hohesitate between defendin themselves by a eight an mahingsor the Camp, were so Severet hanciled by the enem that two Cohort were lost. The Germans no thought fit to retire, ut the lest such abjec terror bellin them that he Caesar' Cavat arrived the fame night the weremo belleve when the declared that the arm was Sala. On Caesar' own retur he ab stat nedfrom reproach, Complaining ont of the cohortiliaving been allowedio leave the Camp, hi licit a thei duinto proieci. Aster another expedition in earch of Ambiorix, and a stili more searchin devastatio of his territories, Caesar te bac his orcesto Reim. Durocortorum Remorum), hereae convened the Councilo Gaul institute an inquir into the conspirac among the
Senone an Carnutes, an exacte Vengeance ro iis author
ACCo by a cruei and degradin formos execution Aster his heseille his legion in inter-quarter an himself et ut for Cisalpine Gaul.
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DE BELLO GALLICO LIB. VI OT MULTIS e causis Caesar maiorem Galliae motum Caesar
Reginum, Titum Sextium lepatos delectum habere insti 'Π
tuitu simul ab ne Pompeio proconsule petit, quoniam ipse ad urbem cum imperio rei publicae causa remaneret, quos ex Cisalpina Gallia consulis Sacramento rogaViSSet 3 ad signa convenire et ad Se proficisci iuberet, magni interesse etiam in reliquum tempus ad opinionem Galliae existimans tantas videri Italiae acultates, ut, si quid esset in bello detrimenti acceptum, non modo id brevi tempore aesarciri. Sed etiam Maioribus augeri copiis posset. Quod cum Pompeius et reipublicae et amicitiae tribuiSset, Celeriter consecto per suos delectu tribus ante eXactam hiemem et constitutis et adductis legionibus duplicatoque earum cohortium numero, URS cum Q. Titurio amiserat et celeritate et copiis docuit, quid populi Romani disciplina atque ope POSSCnt. Interfecto Indutiomaro, ut docuimus, ad eius Propinquos a Treveris imperium defertur. Illi finitimos Germano sollicitare et pecuniam polliceri non desistunt. Cum a proXimis impetrare non OSSOnt, ulterioreS temptant. Inventis nonnullis civitatibus iureiurando inter se confirmant obsidibusque de Iecunia AEaUent;
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Ambiorigem sibi societate et foedere adiungunt Quibus 3
rebus Cognitis Caesar, Cum undique bellum parari videret, Nervios, Aduatucos ac Menapios adiunctis Cisrhenanis omnibus Germanis esse in armis, Senones ad imperatum non Venire et cum Carnutibus finitimisque civitatibus consilia communi Care, a Treveris Germano crebris legationibus sollicitari, maturius sibi de bello cogitandum putaUit. He moes Itaque nondum hieme consecta TroXimis quattuor 3i,id ubi coacti legionibu de improviso in fines Nerviorum con- tbe Nervii tendit et, priusquam illi aut convenire aut profugere
POSSent, magno pecori atque hominum numero capto atque ea Praeda militibus Concessa vastatisque agri in
deditionem Uenire atque obsides sibi dare coegit. Eo 3 celeriter Confecto negoti rursus in liberna legiones Theeoutiet reduXit Concilio Galliae Irimo Vere ut instituerat, 0 GRV indicto cum reliqui praeter Senones, Carnuteid reUCrΟS-
to Paris que eniSSent, initium edi ac desectionis hoc esse arbitratus, Ut omnia POSiponere videretur, Concilium Lutetiam Parisiorum transfert Confines erant hi Senonibus civi 5tatemqUC Patrum memoria coniunxerant, sed , hoc consilio afuisse Xistimabantur Hac re pro Suggestum pronuntiata eodem die cum legionibus in Senones proficiscitur magnisque itineribus e PerUenit.
The Cognito eius adVentu Acco, qui princeps eius consilii sititia cis uerat, iubet in Ppida multitudinem convenire Conan-3 6 4. Lutetiam Parisiorum author of the Bellum Africanum Thicis therars appearance of Paris uses the same Thrase. 86, in history V ma suppose that praemia fortissimo cuique a beneth counci had originalty been sum merenti pro suggestu tribuit, whilemone to meet at Amiens cp. v. iii 5 he has 'de suggestu ina . L I). but was transferret to a simila context. In of
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5. 6J DE BELLO GALLICO LIB. VI 2Dtibus, priusquam cis issici posset, adesses Romano nutes sup-
nuntiatur Necessario mententi, desistunt legatosque b.2deprecandi causa ad caesarem mittunt adeunt se ment o Aeduos, quorum antiquitus erat in fide civitas. Libenter Caesar petentibus Aeduis dat veniam XCUSationemque accipit, quod aestivum tempus instantis belli, non quaes- tionis esse arbitrabatur Obsidibus imperatis centum hos Aeduis custodiendos tradit. Eodem Carnutes legatos obsidesque mittunt usi deprecatoribus Remis, quorum erant in clientela: eadem serunt responsa Peragit concilium Caesar equitesque imperat Civitatibus. 5 Hac parte Galliae pacata totus et mente et animo in Caesar bellum Treverorum et Ambiorigis insistit. Cavarinum 'μ' ' 'ς,
cum equitatu Senonum secum proficisci iubet, ne quis Ambiorix. aut e huius iracundia aut X eo, quod meruerat, Odio 3 civitatis motu eXsistat. His rebus constitutis, quod pro explorato habebat Ambiorigem proelio non SSe concertaturum, reliqua eiu Consilia animo circumspiciebat.
Erant Menapii propinqui Eburonum finibus, perpetuis paludibus silvisque muniti, qui uni e Gallia de pace ad
CaeSarem legato numquam miserant. Cum his esse hospitium Ambiorigi sciebat item per Treveros VeniSSe Germanis in amicitiam cognoverat. Hae prius illi detrahenda auXilia Xistimabat, quam ipsum bello laceSseret, ne desperata Salute aut se in Menapios abderet 6 aut cum Transrhenani congredi cogeretur Hoc init Sendi nil the
consilio totius exercitus impedimenta ad Labienum in i αδ reveros mittit duasque legiones ad eum proficisci iubet legion to ipse cum legionibus X pediti quinque in MenaPio Pro he himgels
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zIo C. IULII CAESARIS 5. 6-cuts ossili ficiscitur Illi nulla coacta manu loci praesidio reti in Ambiosi SilVa PaludeSque Coniugiunt Uaque eodem Conserunt.' tbe Caesar partitis copiis cum Gaio Fabio legato et Marco
CraSSO quaeStore Celeriterque ellectis pontibus adit tr1-
pertito, aedificia vicosque incendit, magno pecoris atque hominum numero potitur uibus rebus coacti Menapii a legato ad iure pacis petendae causa mittunt Ille obsidibus acceptis hostium se habiturum numero confirmat, si aut Ambiorigem aut eius legatos finibus suis recepissent. Mis confirmatis rebus Commium Atrebatem cum equitatu custodis loco in Menapiis relinquit; ipse in Treveros proficiscitur. Meantime Dum haec a Caesare geruntur, Treveri magnis Coacti Tkubdue Peditatu equitatuSque Opiis Labienum cum una legione,ine TreVera quae in eorum finibus hiemaverat, adoriri parabant, iam a
them into aque ab eo non longius bidui ita aberant, cum tuas Pyς 'xVy' venisses legionem missu caesaris coanoscunt Positis
ment. RStri a milibus passuum XV auXilia Germanorum X
spectare constituunt Labienus hostium cognito Consilio, Speran temeritate eorum fore aliquam dimicandi facultatem, PraeSidio quinque cohortium impedimentis relicto Cum viginti quinque moliortibus Magnoque equitatu contra hostem proficiscitur et mille passuum intermisso spatio castra Communit. Erat inter Labienum atque hostem dissicili transitu flumen ripisque praeruptiS Hoc neque ipse transire habebat in animo neque hostes transituros Nistimabat Augebatur auXiliorum cotidie speS. Loquitur in concilio palam, quoniam Germani appropinquare dicantur, Sese suas eXercitusque fortunas cindubium non devocaturum et poster, die prima luce Castra moturum Celeriter haec ad hostes deseruntur,