30.
On discovering these things the chiefs of Britain, who had
come up after the battle was fought to perform those conditions which Caesar had imposed, held a conference, when they
perceived that cavalry, and ships, and corn were wanting to the Romans, and discovered the small number of our soldiers
from the small extent of the camp (which, too, was on this account more limited
than ordinary, because Caesar had conveyed over his
legions without baggage), and thought that the best plan was to renew the war,
and cut off our men from corn and provisions and protract the affair till
winter; because they felt confident, that, if they were vanquished or cut off
from a return, no one would afterward pass over into Britain for the purpose of making war. Therefore, again entering
into a conspiracy, they began to depart from the camp by degrees and secretly
bring up their people from the country parts.
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