6.
They do what they were ordered; and, making a sudden sally from all the gates [of
the camp], leave the enemy the means neither of knowing what was taking place,
nor of collecting themselves. Fortune thus taking a turn, [our men] surround on
every side, and slay those who had entertained the hope of gaining the camp and
having killed more than the third part of an army of more than 30,000 men (which
number of the barbarians it appeared certain had come up to our camp), put to
flight the rest when panic-stricken, and do not suffer them to halt even upon
the higher grounds. All the forces of the enemy being thus routed, and stripped
of their arms, [our men] betake themselves to their camp and fortifications.
Which battle being finished, inasmuch as Galba was unwilling to
tempt fortune again, and remembered that he had come into winter quarters with
one design, and saw that he had met with a different state of affairs; chiefly
however urged by the want of corn and provision, having the next day burned all
the buildings of that village, he hastens to return into the province; and as no
enemy opposed or hindered his march, he brought the legion safe into the
[country of the] Nantuates, thence into [that of] the
Allobroges, and there wintered.
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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