45.
Many things were stated by Caesar to the effect [to
show]; "why he could not waive the business, and that neither his nor the Roman people's practice would suffer him to abandon
most meritorious allies, nor did he deem that Gaul belonged to
Ariovistus rather than to the Roman
people; that the Arverni and the Ruteni had been
subdued in war by Quintus Fabius Maximus, and that the Roman people had pardoned them and had not reduced them
into a province or imposed a tribute upon them. And if the most ancient period
was to be regarded-then was the sovereignty of the Roman people in Gaul most just: if the decree of
the Senate was to be observed, then ought Gaul to be free, which they [the
Romans] had conquered in war, and had permitted to enjoy its
own laws."
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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