49.
Caesar, when he perceived that his soldiers were
fighting on unfavorable ground, and that the enemy's forces were increasing,
being alarmed for the safety of his troops, sent orders to Titus
Sextius, one of his lieutenants, whom he had left to guard the
smaller camp, to lead out his cohorts quickly from the camp, and post them at
the foot of the hill, on the right wing of the enemy; that if he should see our
men driven from the ground, he should deter the enemy from following too
closely. He himself, advancing with the legion a little from that place where he
had taken his post, awaited the issue of the battle.
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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