42.
He, on his return, being well aware of the casualties of war, complained of one
thing [only], namely, that the cohorts had been sent away from the outposts and
garrison [duty], and pointed out that room ought not to have been left for even
the most trivial casualty; that fortune had exercised great influence in the
sudden arrival of their enemy; much greater, in that she had turned the
barbarians away from the very rampart and gates of the camp. Of all which
events, it seemed the most surprising, that the Germans, who had crossed the Rhine with this object, that
they might plunder the territories of Ambiorix, being led to the
camp of the Romans, rendered Ambiorix a
most acceptable service.
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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