of horsmen sent his fotemen into their wintering places by his LieuetenaÌ„ts Fower Legions he placed in Belgica vnder hys Lieuetenants M. Antonius C. Trebonius P. Uatinius Q. Tullius Two he set ouer the Heduans whoÌ„ he knewe to be of greatest authority in all Gallia Two mo he set ouer the Turones in the borders of the Caruntes to be a stay to al that country that lay vpon the sea coast The other two he placed in the borders of the Lemouikes not far froÌ„ Auverne to th eÌ„teÌ„t there shuld not be any part of Gallia without an army After he had taried a few days in Prouince there with spede perused al their Courtes sitting vpon publike controuersies awarding recompence to such as had deserued wel for he had great desier to vnderstaÌ„d how euery man had ben minded toward the coÌ„mon weale in the time of the general rebellioÌ„ of al Gallia the which he had born out through the faithfulnes assistence of the said Prouince assone as he had dispatched theis things he returned to his Legions into Belgicke wintred at Nemetocerna There he had knowledge geuen him how Comiê° of Arras had encountred with his men of armes For after that Anâ—ony was come into his wintergarrison that the city of Arras continued in obedience Comius who after his wouÌ„ding that we spake of before was wont euer to be ready at hand to his country men at euerye stir to th enteÌ„t that if they wold practise any new denâ—ses they should not want a head a captein for the wars as long as the city obeied the Romanes he with his horsmen found hym self his retinew by theuing and for laying the wayes cut of manye conueyes that were going wyth prouisioÌ„ to the Romane garrisoÌ„s There was appointed to Antony for LieuetenaÌ„t of his horsmeÌ„ C. Uolusenus Quadratus to winter in garrison with him him did Antony send to pursue yâ— horsmen of his enemies Uolusenus besides the singuler prowesse that was in him did also beare a great hatred toward Comiê° which was a cause that he so much the more willingly executed the thing that was commaunded him Wherfore laying diuers ambushes he oftentimes set vpon Comius horsemen and put them to the worse Last of al when the contencion grew more vehement that Uolusenus for desier to cut of Comius himself folowed him somwhat more egerly wyth a few that Comius on thother side fled the faster away to th eÌ„tent to draw him further froÌ„ his coÌ„pany at length espying his aduantage Comius sodeÌ„ly cried out vpon all his men that as they were true vnto him they should ayd him not suffer the wound that was geueÌ„ him vnder colour of frendship to be vnreuenged therwithall turning his hors soÌ„what vnaduisedly he letteth him run froÌ„ the rest of his coÌ„pany vpon Uolusenus Al his horsmeÌ„ did the like bicause there were but a few of our men they made them turn head pursued them Comiê° putting spurs to his horse encouÌ„tred the horse of Quadratus with his speare redy charged in the rest thrust Uolusenê° by great violence through the thigh WheÌ„ our horsmeÌ„ saw their captein wouÌ„ded they bestirred themselues turning their horses put their enemies backe After the which chauns many of our ennemies being amazed at the great force of oure men were wounded of whoÌ„ some were ouerthrowen in the chase some were taken prisoners The which misaduenture like as Comius escaped by the swiftnesse of hys horse so our capteine being by him in this prosperous battell sore wouÌ„ded was caried into the caÌ„p in such case as it was not likely he shuld haue liued And Comius whether it were that he thought his grief sufficiently reueÌ„ged or bicause he had lost a great part of his company sent messengers to Antony assuring him by hostages that he wold continue where it shuld please him to appoint do whatsoeuer he shuld coÌ„maund him Only one request he made wherin he besought him to bear with his fearfulnes that he might not come in the sight of any Romane The whiche request for asmuch as Antony iudged it to procede of feare in deede not without good cause he pardoned him accordinge to his desier and receiued hys hostages I know that Cesar made of euery yere by it self a seueral treatise the which thing I thought was not nede full for me to do bicause the yere folowing when L. Paulus C. Marcellus were Consuls there were no notable feates done in Gallia Neuertheles to th entent men may know in what places Cesar his armies were at the same time I haue thought good to wright yet a littel more and to annex it to this treatise During the time that Cesar wintred in Belgicke this one thing was hys chiefe purpose to kepe the Cities together in amitye to minister no hope nor cause of war for he mynded nothing lesse than to deale in such wise as he shuld he constreyned to haue warre at the tyme of his departure least when he wold wtdraw hys army there shuld be left any war behind the which all Gallia could willingly find in hart to enterpryse so it might be without present peril And therfore by entreating the Cities honorablye by rewarding the noble men highlye by burdening the country with no new impositions he easly kept in quiet vnder a better state of obedience all Gallia which nowe was wearied wyth so many vnfortunate battels WheÌ„ winter time was expired coÌ„trary to his custome he goeth into Italy with asmuch eâ—peditioÌ„ as might be to talke with the fraunchised newe inhabited townes and to commeÌ„d vnto them the sute of his Threasorer M. Antonius for the high Priesthod For he made al the frendship he could both gladly bicause the same Antony whoÌ„ he had sent before to sew for that promotioÌ„ was his very dere frend and also earnestly as in despight of the partaking and forcible working of a few meÌ„ who by serting Antonye beside his purpose sought meanes to disgrace Cesar now going oute of his offyce Albeit he had tydings by the way before he came nere Italye that Antonye was made Augur yet he thought he hadde as good cause as before to go vnto the fraunchised newe townes to th entent to geue them thankes for making theyr appearance and for theyr gentilnesse shewed in the behalfe of Antony and also to commend vnto them his own case for the honorable rouâ—â—e whiche he purposed to sew for the next yeare foâ—lowinge that the rather bicause hys aduersaryes proudly made theyr boast that L. Lentulus C. Marcellus were created Consuls to bereue Cesar of al honor and authority and that the Consulshyp was wrested froÌ„ Sergius Galba when he had more fauourable voyces on hys side bycause he had bene alyed to Cesar by familiarity frendship and had bene bound vnto hym as his Lieuetenant Cesar at his comming among the fraunchised newe townes was enterteyned
neyther about Noone he conueyed hys army into theyr Campes again Then at the length Ariouistus sent part of hys power to assault the lesser Camp The encounter continued verye sharpe on both sydes vntyll the euentyde At the sunne setting after many wounds geuen and taken Ariouistus conueyed hys army again into hys Camp As Cesar made enquirye of hys prisoners what should be the cause that Ariouistus wolde not encounter with him in a pitched field he found that the occasion therof was this bicause it was a custome among the Germanes that theyr auncyent women should by castyng of lots and soothsaying declare whether it wer for their behoof to feight or no and that they sayde the Germanes might not by anye meanes possible get the victory if they fought before the new mone The next day Cesar left a sufficient power in eche of hys Campes to defend them and set all hys lyght armed souldiors in the face of his ennemyes before hys lesser Camp bicause he had a small number of Legionary souldyors in respect of the multitude of hys enemyes to thintent to vse the light armed souldiers for a showe He him selfe wyth hys men ordred in three battels marched to the Camp of his enemies Then were the Germanes constreined of necessity to bring their power out of their camp And so they set seuerally wyth lyke distaunce betwene theÌ„ the The people of ConstaÌ„ce Harudes the * People about Strausbrouâ—â— Marcomannes the * People about Wormes Triboks the * People about Spire Uangions the * People about Sion in Ualoys Nemets the * Sedusianes and the * Sweuians euery one by theym selues and bycause there should be no hope left in running away they enuironed all their whole battel with their carts and chariots In them they placed theyr women and they at suche tyme as the souldiers shulde go forth to battell holding vp their hands and weping besought theym that they woulde not yeeld theym in bondage to the Romanes Cesar assygned to euery Legion seuerally a Lieuetenant and a Threasoror to th entent they should be as witnesses of euery mans valiant behauior And he himselfe gaue charge vpon his enemies out of the right wing bicause he perceiued his enemyes to be weakest on that syde So assone as sygne of battell was geuen our men set courageously vppon their enemyes And on thother syde our enemies on the sodein came forth agaynst vs with such celeritie that we had no leysure to discharge our darts at them In so much that castinge asyde Dartes the matter came to hande strokes wyth naked swords But the Germanes quickly knitting themselues close together brake the force of our swords Neuertheles there were very many of our men to be found that flew stoutlye vpoÌ„ them and pulling their tergats out of their handes wounded theym aloft Now whyle the battell of our enemies was on the left wyng dryuen backe and put to flight in theyr right wing by reason of their multitude they didde sore ouercharge vs. Whiche thynge when P. Crassus a noble yong gentilman Lieuetenant of the men of armes perceyued bycause he was somewhat more at liberty than they that were in the battell he sent the rereward to the resâ—ow of our men that were in peril By meanes whereof the feight was renewed and all our enemyes tooâ—e theÌ„ to flyght And they neuer ceased flying before they came to the Rhine whych was about fyue miles from the place where the field was fought There also fewe of them eyther trusting to their streÌ„gth assaied to swim ouer or els fyndinge Botes saued themselues by rowing among the which number Ariouâ—stus was one who fynding a lighter tyed to the banke fled away in it Our horsmen ouertooke all the rest and slew them downe ryght Ariouistus had twoo wyues th one a Sweuian borne whom he hadde brought from home wyth hym thother of Norimberge the suster of king Uoccio whom he had maried in Fraunce sent thither by her brother both the whych perished in that chase The two daughters of them also was one of theym slayne and thother taken prisoner Marcus Ualerius Procillus as he was led away by hys kepers bound wyth thre cheines chaunsed to light into Cesars hand as he pursued the horsmen of hys enemies The which thing was no lesse ioy to Cesar than the victory it self that one of the honorablest men of al the Prouince of Gallia hys familar freÌ„d in whose house he had soiourned was deliuered out of hys enemies hands and recouered agayne by him and that misfortune had not layd anye such calamitye vpon hym as myght haue abridged any part of Cesars great gladnes and reioycement He tolde Cesar that three times lots were cast vpon hym before hys eyes whether he shuld be burned out of hand or reserued vntill an other time and that it was hys good lucke to be saued by lotte Marcus Titius also was found and brought vnto him again When the brute of this discoÌ„fiture was blown ouer the Rhine the Sweuians that were come to the riuer syde began to returne home again whom amazed for feare the Ubians whych are inhabiters on the Rhyne pursewing slew a great number of them Cesar hauing in one Sommer dispatched twoo great warres conueyed hys army into garrisons among the Sequanes somewhat soner than the tyme of the yere required and makyng Labienus for generall in hys absens hee him selfe went into Lumbardye to holde a parlament there FINIS THE SECOND BOKE of C. Iulius Caesars Commentaries of his warres in Gallia DVRING THE TIME that Cesar wyntred in Lumbardy as we haue shewed before it was oftentimes reported to hym by here say and he was also certified by letters from Labienus â–ª that al the Belgies which we haue declared to be the third part of Gallia did coÌ„federate themselues against the people of Rome and giue hostages among themselues The causes of their confederacye were theis Firste they feared least after that all the rest of Gallia were subdued our army should come against them Secondly bycause they were moued thereunto by dyuers of the Galles who partly like as they wer lothe that the Germanes shuld haue taried any lengar in their country so lykewise it greued them that the Romane army shuld winter and continue in Fraunce and partlye were such as through vnconstancy lightnes of minde desired thalteration of the state Of diuers also who wheras nowe it was a common trade through all Fraunce that whosoeuer was of most power and most ability to hire men made hymselfe a king thought they shuld not so easly come by their purpose if we gate the souereinty Cesar being moued with theis tidings and letters leuied two new Legions in Lumbardy and in the beginning of Sommer sent hys Lieuetenant Q. Pedius wyth them to conducte them into Fraunce And assone as there began to be any store of forrage in the fields he hym selfe came vnto hys armye He gaue in charge to the
Ryuer * Sabis that we spake of before From the same riuer with lyke leuelnesse vpwarde rose another hyll directlye against this about two hundred fote the bottom whereof was open and thupper part so thycke wyth wood that it coulde not easlye be seene inward Within those woods our ennemyes kept them selues close and in the open grounde were to be sâ—ne a fewe stales of horsemen by the ryuers side and the riuer was aboute three foote depe Cesar sending hys horsmen before folowed after wyth all hys power But the manner and order of theyr araye was otherwyse than the Belgies had reported it to the Neruians For inasmuch as the enemy was at hande Cesar as hys rustome was to do ledde six legions alwayes in a readinesse vncombred wyth the cariage of any thing after theym he placed the stuffe of all the host and lastly the two legions that were last leuied were a rereward to the whole army garded the stuffe Our horsmen with the slingars and bowmen passing the riuer encountred wyth the horsemen of our ennemies While they receyled backe to their company in the woods from thence agayne issued out vpon oure men who durst not pursew them any further then the playne and open ground extended in the mean time the sixe Legions that went before hauing theyr woorke measured out vnto them began to fortifiye theyr Camp As sone as they that lay lurking in the woods espied the formest cariages of our armye which was the tyme agreed vpon among them selues to geue the onset vpon vs for the performance wherof they had set themselues in order of battel within the woods and encouraged one another before hande sodeinlye they came flying out with al their power and charged vpon our horsmen Hauing easly put them back disordred them with incredible swiftnes they came running down to the riuer insomuch that well nere all at one instant our enemies were in the woods in the Riuer and in hand with vs. Wyth lyke swyftnesse also they rose against the hil to our Camp against them that were occupied about their work Now was Cesar dryuen to do al thyngs at ones The banner was to be displayed whych was the tokeÌ„ when weapon was to bee taken in hand warninge was to be geuen by the sounding of a trumpet the souldiors were to be called backe from the worke such as were gone abrode to fetch turfe were to be sent for the battel was to be set in aray the souldiors were to be encoraged signe of battell was to be geuen Of the whych thyngs a great part was interrupted by shortnesse of the tyme and the hasty assault of our enemies Agaynst theis distresses two thyngs were a helpe Firste the knowledge and experience of the souldiors bycause that throughe theyr practise in former battels they coulde as good skyll to teache theym selues as be taughte of others what was to bee done and secondlye bycause Cesar had geuen commandement to euery Lieuetenant seuerally that none of them shoulde be so hardye to departe from the worke from their seueral legions vntil such time as the camp were fortified Theis men by reason of the hasty approch of their enemies looked for no commaundement from Cesar but ordred al things by them selues as seemed best by their owne discretions Cesar hauing commaunded such things as were nedeful ran encoraging hys souldiors what way soeuer chaunce led hym and came to the tenth Legion He made no lengar protestacion to his souldiors but that they should haue in remeÌ„brance theyr auncient prowesse and that they shoulde not be discouraged in theyr harts but valeantly wythstaÌ„d the brunt of theyr enemyes And bycause hys ennemies were no further of than a man might throw a Dart he gaue theÌ„ a signe of encountryng the whych done as he was goyng to another part to encourage them like wyse he found them feightyng alredy For the tyme was so short and the enemy so earnest to feight and so nere at hand that there wanted leysure not only to place theym vnder theyr antesignes but also to put on theyr skuls and to pul their tergats out of their cases Looke what part euerye man by chaunce lighted into from his worke and what antesigne he sawe fyrst there he stayed least in seking for hys owne companye he should lose the tyme whych was to be spent in feighting When he had set his men in aray rather according as the nature of the place and the fal of the hyl and the necessity of the tyme wold suffer than as the reasoÌ„ and order of battell required so that his legions in diuers places at ones were fayne to encounter their ennemies one in one part and another in another the perfect syght and view being also hindred by reason of thick hedges that were betwyxt theÌ„ there could not any certain rescow be placed any where neyther coulde it be sene what was nedeful to be done in euery part nether could any one maÌ„ see the order execution of all thinges And therefore in so great vncerteinty of things ensewed also diuers haps of fortune The Souldiors of the ninth and tenth legions as they stood in the ryght syde of the battel after the darts were throwen dydde quickly driue down from the higher ground into the riuer the * Atrebatians for they by chaunce were matched wyth them then out of breath wyth running and fortrauelled and sore wounded and preasyng after them slew a great part of them with their swordes as they were troubled in passing the water Moreouer they sticked not to passe the riuer wyth them but boldly aduenturing into a place of disaduauntage they renued the battell agayn against their enemyes that returned vpon them and made resistence whom finally they put to flyght Also in another part two other legions the eleuenth and the eyghth hauing driuen backe the * Ueromanduanes with whom thei encountred from the hygher ground fought harde vpon the banks of the ryuer And al our whole Camp wel nigh being left naked on the forefront and on the left side seing that in the right wing stood the .xii. legion and wythin a lyttell waye of it the .vii. legion All the Neruians in a verye thycke battell by the conduct of Boduognatus who was generall of the field made towarde the same place Of whom some began to assault our Legions on the open syde and some to get to the hyghest place of oure Campe. The same tyme our horsemen and oure light harnessed footemen and such as were with theym who as I tolde you were put to flyght at the first shocke of our ennemyes as they were retyring into their Camp met theyr ennemyes ful in the face and fledde agayne from them another way And the varlets and pages who from the highe gate of our Camp and the top of the hyll had seene oure men passe the Riuer with conquest going out to gather the spoyle when they looked backe and saw the enemies in our Camp tooke theim to
their beles as fast as they could Therewithall was also heard a noise and a rose of them that came wyth the cariages and euerye man scattred awaye for feare some one way and some another All the which things strake such a feare into the harts of the horsemen of Triers who are reputed for men of singular prowesse among the Galles and were sent from their City to aid Cesar when they had sene that our Camp was replenished with a multitude of our enemies oure Legions sore layd at and in maner beset roūd about and that our pages our horsmen our slingars of Numidie fled scattring here and there euery way thinking there was no hope of recouery with vs toke theyr way home and reported to their Citie that the Romanes were put to flyght vanquyshed and that their enemies had wonne their Camp and all theyr cariages Cesar as he went from encouraging the tenth Legion to the ryght wyng when he perceyued his men to be sore pressed and the Antesignes gathered together into one place the souldyers of the .xii. Legion to be pestered so thycke together that one could not feight for another al the Centurions of the iiii Cohort slayne the antesigne bearer kylled and the antesigne lost the capteynes almost of all thother Cohorts eyther wounded or slain among the which number P. Sextus Baculus a verie valeant Gentilman chief captein of a band was hurt wyth so many and so sore wounds that he was now not able to stand on his legs the residue to wax somewhat faint and diuers forsaken of the hindermost to wythdrawe out the battell and eschewe feightyng hys enemyes geuing no entrance to such as came vp against the hyll on the forefronte from the lower grounde and laying sore to them on both sydes so that the matter was brought to a narrow yssue and no help that could be mynistred to releue theym toke a tergat from one of the hyndermost souldyors for he was come thither without a tergat and aduauncing hym selfe into the forefront of the battel called vppon the Centurions by name and encouraging the rest of the souldiors he commaunded the antesigne to be aduaunced and the bands to set them selues more at large to thintēt they might the easlyer wyeld their swords By his comming the souldiors being well chered and gathering courage agayne when euerye man for hys part in the syght of hys graund capteine euen at thuttermost extremitie endeuored to employ hys trauell the brunt of the enemye was a littell stayd Cesar perceyuing that the seuenth Legion whych stoode by hym was likewise sore ouerlaide by the enemy admonyshed the Tribunes that the Legions shuld by lyttel and littel knit them selues together and turnyng their antesignes aduaunce them toward the enemy By meanes wherof whē as one helped another and that they were out of feare of being enclosed of the ennemy behynd they begā to stand more boldly at defens to lay their hāds better about them In the meane season the souldiors of the two Legions whiche in the rereward were a defence to the cariages hearing of the battell ran thyther a pace were spyed by oure enemyes in the top of the hyll And Titus Labienus hauing wonne the tents of our enemyes and beholding frō the higher groūd what was done in our camp sent the tenth legion to the reskew of our men Who learning by the flyght of oure horsemen and pages in what case the matter stood and in how great daūger both the Camp and the Legions and the Captaine hym selfe was made as much hast as was possible Upon the comyng of them there ensewed such an alteration of thynges that euen such of our men as for griefe of theyr wounds were falne downe leaning vpon their shieldes began to feight againe a fresh the pages perceiuing their enemyes amased ran vpon thē armed being vnarmed themselues and the horsemen to th entent wyth valeātnes to wipe away the reproch of theyr former flyght did in al places put theym selues into the battell before the Legionary souldyors How beit the enemies euen in thuttermost perill of theyr lyues shewed suche manhode that as fast as the formest of them were ouerthrowen the next vnto them bestrid theym and fought vpon theyr bodyes the whych being lykewyse cast downe and the deade carkesses heaped one vpon another those that remayned standyng vpon thē as it had bene a hyl threw darts at our men and latchyng our Darts sent them agayn at vs so that there was good cause to deeme them men of so hault courage who durst passe so broade a ryuer clymb vp the high banks and march vp into a place of most disaduauntage for themselues all the whych thyngs the noblenesse of theyr courage of most hard hadde made very easy Thys battell beyng dispatched and the nation and name of the Neruians being brought almost to vtter destruction the elder sort who as we tolde you with the women and chyldren were gathered together into out Ilands fennes when they heard of this battel thinkyng that nothyng was able to stay the conquerors nor nothyng able to saue such as wer vanquished by the consent of all that were lefte alyue sent ambassadors vnto Cesar yelded them selues to hys mercy alledging in declaration of the great calamity of theyr country that of syx hūdred Senators they were brought to three and of threescore thousand men there were scarce fiue hundred left that were able to beare armor Whom Cesar to th entent it myght appeare he had shewed pity to wretches and such as submitted themselues vnto him preserued verye carefully graunting them to enioy styll theyr country towns and streightlye commaunding the borderers to restrein themselues and theyrs from doyng them any wrong or harme The Aduaticks of whom we haue written before commyng with al their power to aid the Neruians when newes was brought them of thys discomfiture brake of theyr iorney and returned home and abandoning vp all theyr Townes and Castels conueyed all their goods into one towne of nature excellently wel fortified the which on al parts roūd about hauing most high rockes and steepe fallings had left on one syde an ascent gentlye rising by littel and littel not passing two hundred fote brode This place they had fortified with a double wall of a very great heighth therupon had laid in a redines stones of a great masse logs of timber sharpened at both endes Them selues were the ofspryng of the Cimbriās and duchmen who at such time as they toke their voyage through our Prouince into Italye bestowed suche stuffe and cattell of theyrs as they coulde not carye and dryue wyth them on thys syde the riuer Rhyne and left syx thousand of their companye behind for the saufe kepyng defence of the same Theis after the death of their companions beyng many yeres together dysquietted by theyr neybors whyle they somtime inuaded and sometime defended concluding peace by general consent chose this place to inhabit
shyppe and commit hymselfe to the barbarous people returned the fyfth day vnto Cesar and made report vnto him what he had sene Whyle Cesar taryed there for the furnishing of his nauie there came ambassadors from a great part of the * Morines to excuse theym of their foly hertofore vsed in that they being rude people and vnskilfull of our custome had moued war against the people of Rome promising to do whatsoeuer he wold commaund theÌ„ Cesar thinking that theis thyngs fell luckelye on hys side bycause he wold neither leaue an enemy behind hys backe nor could well make war bycause the tyme of the yere was so far spent nor demed theys tryflyng busynesses worthy to be preferred before that weighty affayres of Britaine charged them wyth a great nuÌ„ber of hostages The which being brought he receyued their submissioÌ„ Hauing assembled together about fowerscore hulkes and as manye as he thought suffycient to conuey ouer two Legions he distributed all the Bailyes that he had to the Threasoror hys Lieuetenants and the chief officers of hys Camp There were also besides theis eightene mo hulks whiche were held by the wynd an eyght myles froÌ„ that place that they could not come al into one haue Theis he assigned to his meÌ„ of armes The rest of his army he coÌ„mitted to his Lieueteuants Q. Titurius Sabinus L. Aurunculeius Cotta to lead against the Menapians and such townes of the Morines from whence there had come no ambassadors vnto him And he commaunded P. Sulpitius Rufus another Lieuetenant of hys to kepe the hauon wyth such a crew as he thought sufficieÌ„t for the purpose When he had thus set thyngs in order hauing gotten a seasonable wether to saile in he loosed from the shore almost about the thyrd watch commaunding hys horsemen to goe to the further hauon and there to take shippyng and folow after hym Which charge being by them executed somewhat slowly he hymselfe about fower of the clock arriued with hys formest shyps in Brâ—taine and there he sawe all the hylles couered wyth armed men The nature of the whych place was such and the Sea was so enclosed wyth narrow hyls that a Dart might be throwen from the hygher groundes vnto the ryuage Thinking this to be no mete place to take land at he rode at anchor vntil it was nine of the clocke awayting the comming of the rest of hys shyps In the meane season callyng his Lieuetenants Tribunes together he declared to them what he had vnderstoode by Uolusenus and what he wold haue done warning them as the order of war and specially sea matters required that forasmuch as they should haue a sodeine and vncerteyne remouing all thyngs should be done by them at a becke as the tyme wold serue WheÌ„ he had dismissed them hauing gotteÌ„ both wynde and tyde wyth hym at ones he gaue them signe to way vp theyr anchors and goyng forwarde about an eyght myles from thence arryued at an open and playn shore But the Britons hauing knowledge of Cesars meanyng sent theyr horsmen and wagoners before the whiche kynd of furniture they commonly vse in battell and folowyng after wyth al the rest of theyr power prohibited oure men to take lande By meanes herof we were in great perplexity for as much as our shyps by reason of their greatnesse coulde not come nere the shore for waÌ„t of water so that it behoued oure souldiors in vnknowen places wyth troubled hands ouerladen wyth the great weightye burthen of their harnesse both to leape out of their ships and to stand in the waues and to feight with theyr enemies wheras they on the contrary part standing vpon the drye grounde or wading but a littel way into the water hauing al their limbes at liberty in places throughly knowen to theym might boldlye cast Dartes at vs and ouercome vs wyth theyr horses whych were inured to the purpose Our men somewhat abashed at theis thynges as thei that were altogether vnacquainted with thys kind of feight shewed not the like courage and chierfulnes that they were wont to vse in pytched fyelds The whych thing when Cesar perceyued he commaunded that the Galleyes wherof the facion was more straunge to the sauage Britons and the mouing more redy and wieldsome should be remoued a lyttell from the shyps of Burthen and rowed forth and set agaynst the open side of his ennemies and there wyth slyngs shot of arrowes and other artillery to disorder theym and send them further of whyche thinge did greatly aduantage our men For the rude people abashed at the facion of the Galleyes the rowing of them wyth ores and the straunge kind of artillery that was in them stood stil on a heape and a littell gaue backe But when our men staied and semed to make curtsy chiefly for the depenes of the water the chief standerd-bearer of the .x. Legion making earnest protestacion to the Goddes that the thing whych he purposed to doe might happen luckely to the legion sayd leap downe my fellowes onles you wyll betray our standerd to the enemy surely I wyll do my dutye to thuttermost for my common wealth and for my graundcapteine When he had spokeÌ„ this with a loud voice he threw hymself out of the shyppe and began to carrye the standerd against the ennemies Then our men encouragynge one another not to suffer such a foile leaped euerichone of them out of the vessel Those that were in thother formest ships seyng them do so followed after them and approched to theyr enemies Thencounter was sharpe on bothe sides Howbeit our men for as muche as they were able neither to kepe aray nor to take sure foting nor to folow theyr standerds inasmuche as some comming out of one shypp and some out of another they were fayne to cluster themselues vnder that standerd that came next to hande were muche troubled But our ennemies being perfect in al the flete and shallow places assone as they espyed froÌ„ the shore any of our companye commyng out of theyr shyps one by one alone put spurres to their horses and ran vppon them being troubled in the water and where they sawe few there wold they come by companies and enclose them other some from the open side threw darts at the whole rout of vs. The whych when Cesar perceyued he commaunded the Cockbotes Brigantines to be furnished with souldiors sent them to succor such as he saw in dauÌ„ger Assoone as oure men were gotten to drye land the rest of theyr companye folowed hard after them and charging fiercely vpon the enemies put theym to flyght but they coulde not chase them far bicause our horsmen could not kepe theyr course and attaine to the Ilande the whyche one only thyng Cesar myssed of hys accustomed good fortune Our enemyes ouercome in thys battell assone as they had recouered themselues froÌ„ the chase sent Ambassadors by by vnto Cesar for peace proferyng to geue hym hostages to do whatsoeuer he wold commauÌ„d
and guyde them and turne them in a short roome and runne vpon the Uergies and stand stedfastly vppon the beames and quicklye recouer them selues backe agayne into the wagons Wyth the whiche thinges whyle oure men were troubled for the straungenesses of the feight Cesar came in very good season to the rescow For at his coming the enemyes stood stil and our men toke hart to them Notwithstanding forasmuche as he thought the tyme serued not then for hys purpose to meddel wyth his enemies or to geue them battel he kept himselfe in hys place and anon after conueyed hys Legâ—ons into hys Camp agayne As theis things were a doing that al our men were occupyed the rest that were in the fields went theyr waye For many days after there folowed such coÌ„tinual stormes that we were fain to kepe our Camp and our enemyes could not come forth to battel In the mean time the Britons sent messengers abroad into al quarters publyshing euery where what small number was of vs and what oportunitye both of winning 〈◊〉 and setting themselues at libertye for euer was offred if they could turn the Romanes out of their camp Hâ—ruppon assebled a great power of â—orsemen and fotemen and came to oure Camp Albeit that Cesar perceyued that the same thyng was like to happen whych had come to passe a fewe dayes ago that if hys enemyes were put to flight yet should they by their quicknes scape dauÌ„ger yet notwythstanding forasmuch as he had gotteÌ„ a thirtie horsmeÌ„ which Comius of Arras whom we haue spoken of before had brought ouer with hym he sette his Legions in battel ray before his Campe. When the matter came to be tryed by the sworde our enemies were not able to stande any while agaynste the force of our Souldyers but turned their backes Whom we purse winge as farre as our strength wold geue vs leaue to run slew very many of them and after we had burned vp all the howses a greate waye aboute we retyred into our Campe. The same daye came ambassadours froÌ„ our enemies to Cesar to entreate for peace whom hee charged wyth double number of Hostages commaunded them to bring them to him into Gallia And forasmuche as the It is the tyme wheÌ„ the daye and night are all of one length which is twyce in the yere in March and September Equinoctial drew nere he thought the wynter season was not for hym to sayle in his ships being so weake as they were wherfore hauing gotten a mete weather somewhat after midnight he loosened from the shore with his shippes the which came eueryecheone of them safe to lande But that twoo of the shippes of burthen could not attaine to the same hauon that the rest dydde and were dryuen somewhat lower Out of the whych when as a threhundred souldiers beyng set a lande were going towarde their Camp the Morines whom Cesar at his setting forth into Britaine had left in quiet allured with hope of spoile came about them not with so greate a nomber to speak of at the firste and bad them put of their harnesse if they loued their liues When they on thother syde castynge theimselues in a ringe stode at defence sodenly at the cry that was made ther came together aboute sixe thousande men The whiche thinge Cesar hearing of sent all his horsemen out of his Campe to theyr rescowe In the meane whyle our men withstode the force of theyr enemyes feightyng verye valeantlye by the space of more then fower howers in the which time fewe of them beinge wounded they slew very many of them But assone as our horsemen came within sight our enemies casting away their weapons turned their backes and a great number of them were kylled The next day Cesar sent his lieuetenant T. Labienus with those Legions that he had brought ouer againe out of Brittaine agaynste the Morynes that had made insurrection Who hauing not any place to fly vnto for succour by reason their fennes were dryed which kind of refuge they had vsed the yere before came almost all in subiection to Labienus But Q. Titurius and. L. Cotta two other of Cesars Lieuetenantes which had led certeyne Legions against the Menapians hauing wasted al their fieldes cutte downe all their corne and burnt vp al their buildings bycause the Menapians had al hid theymselues in the thicke woodes returned vnto Cesar. Cesar appointed that al his Legions should winter amonge the Belgies Onelye two cities of Brittaine sent hostages thither the rest refused to do it After theis thinges were done vppon the sight of Cesars letters the Senate proclaimed a general supplication for twentye dayes FINIS THE FYFTH BOOKE of C. Iulius Caesars Commentaries of his warres in Gallia THe same yere that Lucius Domitius and Appyus Claudyus were Consulls Cesar departinge frome hys winter garisons into Italye as he was yerely wonte to do commaunded his Lieuetenantes in whose charge he had lefte hys Legions that they shoulde in the wynter season cause as manye news shippes to be buylded as they could and the olde to be mended declaring of what receite and fasshyon he wold haue them made For the more spedye loading and vnloading of them he made them somewhat lower than those that we are wonte to occupye in our Seas and that so much the rather bycause that through the often chaunge of the tydes he had perceyued that the Seas wente rougher there For the better carying ouer of thynges of greate weight and numbers of horses he made theym somewhat broader then those that we vse in other seas All theis he commaunded to be made in such wise that they might be spedelye driuen wyth ores whereunto their lowenesse did greatlye further Suche thynges as were necessarye for the arming out of the shippes he caused to be brought out of Spaine And after that he hadde helde a parliament of the hither Galia he tooke his iourney into Illyricum Now called Lumbardy because he harde saye that the marches of the Prouince were wasted by rodes made by the Pirustes Certain people of IlliricuÌ„ now called Sclaâ—ony When he came thither he commanded the Cityes to fynde hym men of warre and appoynted theym a place to mete all at together The whiche thing being blowen abroad the Pyrustes sent ambassadours to him declaryng that none of those thynges had bene done by the common coÌ„sent of their maiestrates and that neuerthelesse they were contente to make him amendes for the wronges that were done at hys pleasure Cesar accepting their profer charged theym with hostages and wylled theym to brynge them in by a certaine day declaring vnto them that vnlesse they did so he would persecute their City with the sworde When the hostages were brought in by the day limitted he appointed dayesmen betwene the Cities to consyder of the matter in variance and to â—esse the penalty Hauinge dispatched theis matters and held a counsel there he returned agayn into the hither Gallia from thence went to
would haue enterprised such a matter withoute assured hope But howsoeuer the world should fal out he was sure his opinion could bring no harme For if there were no euyl meant toward theÌ„ they might with out perill go to the next legion or yf all Gallia conspired wyth the Germanes then was there no waye to saue themselues but only in making away wyth spede As for the counsel of Cotta and such as were of contrary opinion to what purpose was it through the which if not present peryll yet assuredlye famin was to be feared by long siege When thys disputacion was had on both partes and that Cotta the capteines of the chief bandes resisted earnestlye do as ye lyst if you nedes wyll ê™ Sabinus that was sayd wyth a lowd voice that a great sort of the souldiers myght wel hear hym for I am not he that most feareth the perill of death among you Theis shal be wyse and if any thing chaunce amysse they shall aske accompt at thy hand in as muche as if thou woldest let them ioyning them selues with the next garrisons wyth in a daye or two at the furthest they myght ioyntly together with theym sustayne what soeuer the fortune of battel should lay vpon them and not peryshe by famine and swoorde lyke people cast of and banished from the rest of theyr companye After theis wordes there was rising on all handes and holde was layd vpon them both entreataÌ„ce was made that they wold not throughe theyr wilful dyssention cast all into vtter daunger It made no matter whether they went foorth or whether they taryed still so they were al of one mind and opinion but on the contrary part in disagreeing was no likelyhod of wel doing The matter through disputacion was prolonged vntil midnight at the leÌ„gth Cotta being persuaded yelded to Sabinus and therupoÌ„ the sentence of Sabinus taking place it was proclaymed that they should set forth by the break of day The rest of the night was consumed in watching euery Souldyer loking about what he had to carry with him and what he should be constreyned to leaue behind him of such furniture as he had prepared for winter Al things were deuysed in suche sorte as that they could not tary wythout peryll and that the daunger might be augmented by werying of the souldiers with watching Assone as daylight appered they set foorth of their camp like men fully perswaded that the counsell had bene geuen them not by Ambiorix their enemy but by some special frend of theyrs in as slight aray as could be and with as much baggage as they were able to cary Our enemyes vnderstanding of theyr iorney by theyr noyse in the night and their watching layd a bushment in twoo seuerall places of aduauntage secretly in the woodes about a twoo myles of and there awayted the coÌ„ming of the Romanes Assone as part of our army was entred into a great valley sodenly they shewed themselues on both sides the valley and began to assayle the hindermost of vs and to keepe the formost from rysing vp the hyl agayne and to encounter wyth vs in a place of the most disaduauntage that could be for vs. Then Liturius as he that had laid for nothing before trembled and ran vp downe to set his men in order but it was so fearfully and after such a facion as if he â—ad bene at hys wyttes end the whiche thing is commonlye wont to happen vnto such as are coÌ„pelled to take counsell when the thing should be presently executed But Cotta who seemed to haue forsene that these things might come to passe by the way and for the same cause wold not be author of the iorney was not to seke in anye thynge that was for the saufrye of them all For both in calling vpon the souldiers and in encouraging them he executed the office of a Graundcaptein and in feightinge he performed the dewty of a souldier And forasmuche as by reason of the length of their aray he was not able in his own person to see al things done and to forecast what was to be performed euery where he caused it to be proclaymed that they shoulde forsake theyr baggage and cast them selues in a ring The which counsell although in suche a case it be not worthy to be reproued yet it fel out ilfauoredly For it both abated the courage of our meÌ„ and made oure enemyes more chierfull to feight by reasoÌ„ it might seme that that thing was not done but vpon great feare and vtter dispayre Moreouer it happened as it must nedes come to passe that the souldiers commonly went from theyr antesignes and ran to catch and snatch froÌ„ among the cariages such thyngs as euery of them did set most store by so that there was nothinge but crying and wepynge But the barbarous Galles were not to learne howe to demeane themselues For theyr capteines caused it to bee proclaymed through all the fielde that no man shuld styrre out of his place the pray was theirs all that the Romanes had was reserued for them and therfore get the victory and al was their owne Our men were equal to them both in number and prowesse and albeit they were destitute both of good captein and of good fortune yet they reposed all hope of welfare in theyr manhod and as often as any Cohort issued out a great slaughter of enemyes was made on that side The whych thing when Ambiorix perceiued he caused it to be cryed that his men should throw Dartes a far of not encouÌ„ter at hand and what way so euer the Romanes preased vpon theÌ„ to geue way for that by meanes of the lightnes of theyr harnes their dayly exercise the Romanes coulde do them no harme and to pursew theÌ„ when they retired again to theyr staÌ„derdes The whyche precept was so diligently obserued by them that as often as anye Cohort of ours brake out of the ryng charged vpon theÌ„ our ennemyes flew backe as fast as they could In the mean whyle there was no shyfte but that part must be made naked and open to receyue the Dartes that were sent Again assone as they began to retyre to the place they came fro they were enclosed both by theym that had geuen place vnto them and by them that waited at hand vpon them And if thei went about to kepe theyr ground neyther coulde theyr manhode auayle them neyther could they standing so thyck together auoyd the Darts that such a multitude did cast at them And yet being afflicted with so many incommodities at ones being sore wounded they stood stil at defence when a great parte of the daye was spent wheras they fought from the breake of day vnto eyght of the clocke they committed not any thing that might seme vncomlye for them to do Then T. Balbuentius who the yeare before had had the leding of one of the chyef bandes a valeaunt personage and of great authoritie was thrust throughe
furtherance And therfore being enformed by Cingetorix his alies of the oracion that Induciomarus had in the counsell he sent Messengers to the cities nere hand called the horsmen about hym from al partes appoynting them a certayn day to mete together In the meane while Induciomarus wyth all hys horsemen went vp and down almost euery day before hys camp sometime to vew the situacion of the Camp and somtyme to commune wyth them or to put them in feare and diuers tymes he wold cause hys horsemen to throw theyr Dartes all at ones into the Trench Labienus held his men styll wythin the fortification and by all meanes he could deuise gaue his enemyes occasion to thynke that he stoode in feare of theym Now when Induciomarê° euery day more proudly and disdeinfully then other came before hys Campe Labienus one night taking in the horsemen of all the cities therabout which he had seÌ„t for layd so narrow watch for the keping of all his meÌ„ wtihin the camp that the matter coulde not by anye meanes be horne abrode or bee bewrayed to the Treuires In the mean season Induciomarus accordinge to hys daylye custome resorted to the Camp and there ê‘sent a great part of the day His horsmen threw theyr dartes wyth most spightful words prouoked our men to come foorth to feyght with them When they sawe that our men gaue them none aunswer at theyr pleasure about the Euening they brake their aray departed wythout order Then Labienus sending out sodenly al his horsmen at two gates gaue them commaundement and expressly charged them that when their enemies were dyscomfited and put to flyght the which he foresaw wold come to passe as it did in dede they should al set vpon Induciomarus and that they should not hurt anye other man before they saw hym deade bycause he wold not that he shuld haue leysure to escape while they were occupyed about thothers He promysed great rewards to them that slew hym and he sent his fotemen after to the ayd and succor of hys horsmen Fortune fauored the deuice of the man For inasmuch as all made assault vppon hym alone Induciomarus was taken tardie euen in the foord of the riuer and there slayne and hys heade carâ—ed into our Camp The horsemeÌ„ in theyr retire slew as many as they coulde come by When this thyng was ones knowen all the hostes of the Eburones and Neruians that were assembled together departed and so by thys meanes for a while after Cesar had all Gallia in better quyetnes FINIS THE SYXTH BOKE of C. Iulius Caesars Commentaries of his warres in Gallia CESAR FOR MANY consideratioÌ„s loking for a greater broile in Gallia determyned to make musters by hys Lieuetenantes M. Sillanus C. Antistius of RhegiuÌ„ and T. Sestius Moreouer he requested of Cn. Pompeius the Proconsull that for asmuch as he abode wyth authority about the Citie for defencs of the coÌ„mon weale he should commaund to repayre to theyr standerdes and to come vnto hym all suche as beynge bound by othe to the Consul he had leuyed in Callia Cisalpina For he thought it should be greatly auayleable herafter to make al Gallia staÌ„d in awe if it might appeare to theym that Italy was of such power and abilitye as that it could not only repayre and amend in short space anye losse receiued by the warres but also make it self stronger than it was before The whych thyng when Pompey both for the coÌ„mon weales sake and for frendships sake had grauÌ„ted vnto hauing spedelye made muster by hys Capteines and not only raised but also conueyed thither as hee was three Legions before wynter was done and also hauing dowbled the number of those Cohortes that he had lost with Q. Titurius through hys celerity and power he gaue to vnderstand what the disciplyne and ryches of the Romanes were able to doe After that Induciomarus was slayn as I tould ye before the Treuires coÌ„mitted the souereinty to hys next kinsmen who ceased not to sollicit their neighbors the Germanes and to promis theym monye When they could not obteine theyr purpose of theyr neyghbours they sought to them that were further of At the last hauing found some cityes plyable to theyr desyer they bounde the one to another by othe and wrought sure wyth hostages and mony They entred society and aliance wth Ambiorix The whych thinges when Cesar vnderstode and sawe moreouer that on all sides warre was rered against hym that the Neruians Aduatickes and Menapians with thassistance of all the Germanes on thys syde the Rhine were in armes that the Senones came not at hys commaundement but toke counsel with the Caruntes and other borderers agaynst hym and that the Treuires with often ambassades went about to rayse the Germanes he thought it stode him in hand to lay for the warres betymes And therfore ere wynter was fully speÌ„t he brought together fowre Legions that were nerest to hym sodenlye inuaded the borders of the NeruiaÌ„s and there before they could eyther assemble to resist hym or flye to saue themselues â–ª hauing taken a great bootye of men and cattell the whych he gaue to his souldyers for a pray and wasted their fieldes he coÌ„pelled them to submit themselues to hym and to geue hym hostages Hauing quicklye thus dyspatched thys busines he conueyed hys Legions agayne into theyr winteryng places In the beginning of the spring sommoning a counsell of al Gallia wheÌ„ as all thother came sauing the Senones Caruntes and Treuires coÌ„iecturing thys to bee a beginning of war rebellioÌ„ to thintent he might seeme to set al other things a part he adiourned the parlament to Lutetia of the Parisians They were next neyghbors to the Senones and had priuileged ech other in theyr cities within mans remembrance but it was thought they were no partakers of thys counsell Thys matter being openlye pronounced from the bench he went the same daye wyth hys Legions agaynst the Senones and by great iorneyes came thither Acco Prince of the contrarye faction hauing knowledge of his comming commaunded the common people to get them into the Townes As they wer about to do so before they could dyspatch tidings came that the Romanes were at hande by meanes whereof constreyned of necessitye to cease from theyr enterprise they sent messengers to Cesar to entreat with him They made theyr accesse vnto him by the Heduanes whose countrye had continued faythfull from of olde time Cesar at the sute of the Heduanes was the wyllynger to beare wyth them and accepted their excuse for as muche as he thought that the sommer tyme was rather to be employed aboute the warre that was at hand then about examination of matters And so he commauÌ„ded theym to geue him a hundred hostages the whyche he deliuered to the Heduanes to be kept Thither also the Caruntes sent Ambassadors and hostages vsing for theyr intercessors the men of Rhemes vnto whoÌ„ they were as it were reteyners and they receiued like aunswer
the dooing of the matter were quickly ferrried ouer Almost at one instant a littel be fore day light tidings was brought to the enemy that contrary to theyr custome the Romanes made an vprore in their camp and that a great company was going vp the streame and a great noise of Ores heard that way and that a littell beneath men of warre were ferrying ouer in Barges When they had heard this forasmuch as they thought that the Legions were passing in three places and that al of theÌ„ troubled wyth the rebellion of the Heduanes prepared themselues to flyght they also deuided their army into thre partes For leauing a conuenient number for defence against oure camp they sent a small bande toward Corbeit Metiosedum which should procede no further thaÌ„ they saw the Botes go and with all the rest of their power they went against Labienus By the breake of day bothe all our men were ferried ouer and the battell of our enemyes appered wythin sight Labienus hauing encouraged his souldiers to be mindfull of their auncient prowesse and of so manye prosperous fieldes that they had fought and to thynke wyth themselues that Cesar vnder whose banner they had many a time and often foiled their enemies was there present he bade blow vp to the battell At the first encounter on the right wing where the seuenth Legion stode oure ennemies were driuen backe and put to flighte on the lefte wyng whyche place the xv Legion held albeit that the fyrst rankes of our enemyes were striken throughe wyth Dartes and fell downe deade yet neuertheles the rest stode earnestly at defence and there was not any man that made countenance to run his way The Capteine Camulogenus himselfe was euer at hande and encouraged them While the victory hung yet in doubtfull ballance The Marshals of the vii Legion hearing what was done in the lefte wynge shewed the Legion at the backe of theyr enemies and aduaunced their banners agaynst theym Yet for all that there was not anye man euen at that time that forsoke his ground but were all enclosed rounde about and slaine euerychone Camulogenus also tooke suche fortune as hys souldiers did Nowe they that were lefte for defence agaynste Labienus camp when they heard that the battell was ioyned went to succor their fellowes and tooke a hill but they were not able to wythstand the force of our souldiers specially being conquerors So intermedling theÌ„selues wyth the rest of theyr company that fled al such forasmuch as there were neyther woodes nor mountaynes to hyde them they were al slaine WheÌ„ Labienus had dispatched this matter he returned to AgeÌ„dicum where the stuffe of the whole army was left and from thence he came with al his power vnto Cesar. UpoÌ„ knowledge that the Heduanes rebelled the war was encreased Ambassades were dispatched into all partes as far as eyther theyr fauor authority or mony was able to stretch they streined themselues to sollicit the Cityes Hauinge gotten into theyr handes the hostages that Cesar had bestowed among them they put the neuters in feare that they would put them to death The Heduanes requested Uercingetorix that he wold come to theÌ„ and consult wyth them for thorder of the warre When they had obteined theyr request they sewed to haue the chief doing coÌ„mitted to themselues and they brought the matter so farre in controuersy that a counsell of all Gallia was called at Beawâ—â—e Bibracte to the which place resorted great numbers of people from al quarters and the matter was putte to voyces by which it was concluded generallye that Uercingetorix shuld be GrauÌ„dcapteine styll From thys counsell were absent the men of Rhemes the Lingones and the Treuires The men of Rhemes and the Lingones were awaye bycause they cleaued to the frendshippe of the Romanes the Treuires by reason they were farre distant and were infested by the Germanes whyche was the cause that they came not of all the tyme of the warre nor sent anye ayde to anye of bothe partyes The Heduanes tooke the matter verye heauilye that they were set beside the souereintye they lamented the chauÌ„ge of theyr estate wyshinge that Cesar would pardon them And yet hauing enterprysed the warre already they durst not wythdraw theÌ„selues to take counsel alone from the rest Eporedorix and Uiridomarus yong gentelmen of greate towardnes coulde ill abide to be at the commaundement of Uercingetorix Howbeit hee commaunded all thother Cities to geue him pledges and wylled them to bringe them in by a day Ouermore he bade that all theyr horsmen to the number of .xv. thousand should wyth all spede possible resort hither to him As for fotemen he sayd he wold content himself wyth those that he had alreadye for he wold neyther try the courtesye of fortune nor put the matter to a pytched field But forasmuch as he had so good store of horsemen it was an easy matter to compasse to prohibit the Romanes from fetchinge corne and forrage so that they could finde in theyr hearts to abide the destroying of theyr owne corne and the burning of theyr owne houses through losse of which their priuate goodes they sawe they shoulde attaine souereinty and liberty for euer When he had set thyngs thus at a stay he commaunded the Heduanes and Secusianes whych were borderers vppon the Prouince to find him ten thousand footemen and for an ouerplus eyght hundred horsmen ouer whom he made captein the brother of Eporedorix commaunding him to make war vppon the people of Allobrogians On thother side he sent the Gabales together wyth the nexte hundreds of Auverne against the Heluians and the Ruthenes Cadurkes to wast the borders of the Uolces in Arminacke Neuerthelesse by secret messages and ambassages he solliciteth the Allobrogians whose mindes he hoped were not yet quietted syns the last war Unto their noble men he promised monye and to the City the superiority of al the whole countrye For a defence agaynst all theis chauÌ„ces were prouided before hand two twentye Cohortes The whych being raysed out of the verye Prouince were by the Lieuetenant L. Cesar in all places set as a Bulwarke against the enemy The Heluians of their owne head encounteryng wyth their borderers were put to the worse and wyth the losse of the Prince of their Citye C. Ualerius Denotaurê° the son of Caburus and manye other that were slayne in the field were driuen to take their walled Townes The Allobrogians placing diuers garrisons vpoÌ„ the Riuer of Rhone defended their borders wyth great care and diligens Cesar bicause he perceyued hys enemies to be better furnished of horsmen than himself and that all the wayes were so forlayd that he could not be relieued wyth any thing out of Prouince or Italye sent ouer the Rhine into Germanye vnto those Cities which thother yeres before he had pacified and demauÌ„ded of them horsmen and fotemen light harnessed which were wont to feight amongest them At theyr comming forasmuche as they had not so