78.
When different opinions were expressed, they determined that those who, owing to
age or ill health, were unserviceable for war, should depart from the town, and
that themselves should try every expedient before they had recourse to the
advice of Critognatus: however, that they would rather adopt that
design, if circumstances should compel them and their allies should delay, than
accept any terms of a surrender or peace. The Mandubii, who had
admitted them into the town, are compelled to go forth with their wives and
children. When these came to the Roman
fortifications, weeping, they begged of the soldiers by every entreaty to
receive them as slaves and relieve them with food. But Caesar, placing guards on the rampart, forbade them to be admitted.
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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