22.
And while the attention of our men is engaged in that matter, in another part
Adcantuannus, who held the chief command, with 600 devoted
followers whom they call soldurii (the conditions of whose association are
these,-that they enjoy all the conveniences of life with those to whose
friendship they have devoted themselves: if any thing calamitous happen to them,
either they endure the same destiny together with them, or commit suicide: nor
hitherto, in the, memory of men, has there been found any one who, upon his
being slain to whose friendship he had devoted himself, refused to die);
Adcantuannus, [Isay] endeavoring to make a sally
with these, when our soldiers had rushed together to arms, upon a shout being
raised at that part of the, fortification, and a fierce battle had been fought
there, was driven back into the town, yet he obtained from Crassus [the indulgence] that he should enjoy the same terms of
surrender [as the other inhabitants].
C. Julius Caesar. Caesar's Gallic War. Translator. W. A. McDevitte. Translator. W. S. Bohn. 1st Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1869. Harper's New Classical Library.
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