39.
Accordingly, messengers having been forthwith dispatched to the
Centrones, the Grudii, the Levaci,
the Pleumoxii, and the Geiduni, all of whom are under
their government, they assemble as large bodies as they can, and rush
unexpectedly to the winter-quarters of Cicero, the
report of the death of Titurius not having as yet been
conveyed to him. That also occurred to him, which was the consequence of a
necessary work-that some soldiers who had gone off into the woods for the
purpose of procuring timber and therewith constructing fortifications, were
intercepted by the sudden arrival of [the enemy's] horse. These having been
entrapped, the Eburones, the Nervii, and the
Aduatici and all their allies and dependents, begin to attack
the legion: our men quickly run together to arms and mount the rampart; they
sustained the attack that day with great difficulty, since the enemy placed all
their hope in dispatch, and felt assured that, if they obtained this victory,
they would be conquerors forever.
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