34.
Having pronounced this decree between [the contending parties], he exhorted the
Aedui to bury in oblivion their disputes and dissensions, and,
laying aside all these things, devote themselves to the war, and expect from
him, on the conquest of Gaul, those rewards which they
should have earned, and send speedily to him all their cavalry and ten thousand
infantry, which he might place in different garrisons to protect his convoys of
provisions, and then divided his army into two parts: he gave Labienus four legions to lead into the country of the Senones and Parisii ; and led in person six into the country of the
Arverni, in the direction of the town of Gergovia , along the banks of the Allier
. He gave part of the cavalry to Labienus and
kept part to himself. Vercingetorix, on learning this circumstance,
broke down all the bridges over the river and began to march on the other bank
of the Allier
.
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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