14.
For these Divitiacus pleads (for after the departure of the
Belgae, having dismissed the troops of the Aedui,
he had returned to Caesar). "The Bellovaci
had at all times been in the alliance and friendship of the Aeduan
state; that they had revolted from the Aedui and made war upon the
Roman people, being urged thereto by their
nobles, who said that the Aedui, reduced to slavery by Caesar, were suffering every indignity and insult. That
they who had been the leaders of that plot, because they perceived how great a
calamity they had brought upon the state, had fled into Britain. That not only the Bellovaci, but also the
Aedui, entreated him to use his [accustomed] clemency and
lenity toward them [the Bellovaci]: which if he did, he would
increase the influence of the Aedui among all the
Belgae, by whose succor and resources they had been accustomed
to support themselves whenever any wars occurred."
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