18.
Within ten days after the timber began to be collected, the whole work was
completed, and the whole army led over. Caesar, leaving
a strong guard at each end of the bridge, hastens into the territories of the
Sigambri. In the mean time, embassadors from several nations
come to him, whom, on their suing for peace and alliance, he answers in a
courteous manner, and orders hostages to be brought to him. But the
Sigambri, at the very time the bridge was begun to be built,
made preparations for a flight (by the advice of such of the
Tenchtheri and Usipetes as they had among them),
and quitted their territories, and conveyed away all their possessions, and
concealed themselves in deserts and woods.
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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