51.
The day following, Caesar left what seemed sufficient as
a guard for both camps; [and then] drew up all the auxiliaries in sight of the
enemy, before the lesser camp, because he was not very powerful in the number of
legionary soldiers, considering the number of the enemy; that [thereby] he might
make use of his auxiliaries for appearance. He himself, having drawn up his army
in three lines, advanced to the camp of the enemy. Then at last of necessity the
Germans drew their forces out of camp, and
disposed them canton by canton, at equal distances, the Harudes,
Marcomanni, Tribocci, Vangiones,
Nemetes, Sedusii, Suevi; and
surrounded their whole army with their chariots and wagons, that no hope might
be left in flight. On these they placed their women, who, with disheveled hair
and in tears, entreated the soldiers, as they went forward to battle, not to
deliver them into slavery to the Romans.
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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