31.
Nor did Vercingetorix use less efforts than he had promised, to gain
over the other states, and [in consequence] endeavored to entice their leaders
by gifts and promises. For this object he selected fitting emissaries, by whose
subtle pleading or private friendship, each of the nobles could be most easily
influenced. He takes care that those who fled to him on the storming of Avaricum should be provided with arms and clothes. At the same time
that his diminished forces should be recruited, he levies a fixed quota of
soldiers from each state, and defines the number and day before which he should
wish them brought to the camp, and orders all the archers, of whom there was a
very great number in Gaul, to be collected and sent
to him. By these means, the troops which were lost at Avaricum are speedily replaced. In the mean time,
Teutomarus, the son of Ollovicon, the king of the
Nitiobriges, whose father had received the appellation of
friend from our senate, came to him with a great number of his own horse and
those whom he had hired from Aquitania .
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