7.
Thither, immediately after midnight, Caesar, using as guides the same persons who had come to him as
messengers from Iccius, sends some Numidian and
Cretan archers, and some Balearian slingers as a
relief to the towns-people, by whose arrival both a desire to resist together
with the hope of [making good their] defense, was infused into the Remi, and, for the same reason, the hope of gaining the
town, abandoned the enemy. Therefore, after staying a short time before the
town, and laying waste the country of the Remi, when
all the villages and buildings which they could approach had been burned, they
hastened with all their forces to the camp of Caesar,
and encamped within less than two miles [of it]; and their camp, as was
indicated by the smoke and fires, extended more than eight miles in breadth.
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