21.
This proposal having met with general approbation, Comius the
Atrebatian fled to those Germans
from whom he had borrowed auxiliaries for that war. The rest instantly send
embassadors to Caesar; and requested that he would be
contented with that punishment of his enemy, which if he had possessed the power
to inflict on them before the engagement, when they were yet uninjured, they
were persuaded from his usual clemency and mercy, he never would have inflicted;
that the power of the Bellovaci was crushed by the cavalry action;
that many thousand of their choicest foot had fallen, that scarce a man had
escaped to bring the fatal news. That, however, the Bellovaci had
derived from the battle one advantage, of some importance, considering their
loss; that Correus, the author of the rebellion, and agitator of
the people, was slain: for that while he lived the senate had never equal
influence in the state with the giddy populace.
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