22.
Caesar reminded the embassadors who made these
supplications, that the Bellovaci had at the same season the year
before, in conjunction with other states of Gaul, undertaken a war, and that
they had persevered the most obstinately of all in their purpose, and were not
brought to a proper way of thinking by the submission of the rest: that he knew
and was aware that the guilt of a crime was easily transferred to the dead; but
that no one person could have such influence, as to be able by the feeble
support of the multitude to raise a war and carry it on without the consent of
the nobles, in opposition to the senate, and in despite of every virtuous man;
however he was satisfied with the punishment, which they had drawn upon
themselves.
C. Julius Caesar. Caesar's Gallic War. Translator. W. A. McDevitte. Translator. W. S. Bohn. 1st Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1869. Harper's New Classical Library.
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