20.
In the mean time, the Trinobantes, almost the most powerful state of
those parts, from which the young man, Mandubratius embracing the
protection of Caesar had come to the continent of Gaul to [meet] him (whose father, Imanuentius, had
possessed the sovereignty in that state, and had been killed by
Cassivellaunus; he himself had escaped death by flight), send
embassadors to Caesar, and promise that they will
surrender themselves to him and perform his commands; they entreat him to
protect Mandubratius from the violence of
Cassivellaunus, and send to their state some one to preside
over it, and possess the government. Caesar demands
forty hostages from them, and corn for his army, and sends
Mandubratius to them. They speedily performed the things
demanded, and sent hostages to the number appointed, and the corn.
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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