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Gaul being entirely reduced, when Caesar
having waged war incessantly during the former summer, wished to recruit his
soldiers after so much fatigue, by repose in winter quarters, news was brought
him that several states were simultaneously renewing their hostile intention,
and forming combinations. For which a probable reason was assigned; namely, that
the Gauls were convinced that they were not able to
resist the Romans, with any force they could collect
in one place; and hoped that if several states made war in different places at
the same time, the Roman army would neither have aid,
nor time, nor forces, to prosecute them all: nor ought any single state to
decline any inconveniences that might befall them, provided that by such delay,
the rest should be enabled to assert their liberty.
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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