2.
These things being finished, and the assizes being concluded, he returns into
Hither Gaul, and proceeds thence to the army. When he had arrived there,
having made a survey of the winter quarter, he finds that, by the extraordinary
ardor of the soldiers, amid the utmost scarcity of all materials, about six
hundred ships of that kind which we have described above and twenty-eight ships
of war, had been built, and were not far from that state, that they might be
launched in a few days. Having commended the soldiers and those who had presided
over the work, he informs them what he wishes to be done, and orders all the
ships to assemble at port Itius, from which port he had learned
that the passage into Britain was
shortest, [being only] about thirty miles from the continent. He left what
seemed a sufficient number of soldiers for that design; he himself proceeds into
the territories of the Treviri with four legions without baggage, and 800 horse, because
they neither came to the general diets [of Gaul], nor obeyed his
commands, and were moreover, said to be tampering with the Germans beyond the Rhine .
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