36.
The same day, embassadors sent by the enemy came to Caesar to negotiate a peace. Caesar doubled
the number of hostages which he had before demanded; and ordered that they
should be brought over to the continent, because, since the time of the equinox
was near, he did not consider that, with his ships out of repair, the voyage
ought to be deferred till winter. Having met with favorable weather, he set sail
a little after midnight, and all his fleet arrived safe at the continent, except
two of the ships of burden which could not make the same port which the other
ships did, and were carried a little lower down.
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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