5.
These matters being settled, Caesar went to port
Itius with the legions. There he discovers that forty ships,
which had been built in the country of the Meldi , having been driven back by a storm, had been unable to
maintain their course, and had returned to the same port from which they had set
out; he finds the rest ready for sailing, and furnished with every thing. In the
same place, the cavalry of the whole of Gaul, in number 4,000,
assembles, and [also] the chief persons of all the states; he had determined to
leave in Gaul a very few of them, whose
fidelity toward him he had clearly discerned, and take the rest with him as
hostages; because he feared a commotion in Gaul when he should be absent.
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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