2.
While these things are in agitation, the Carnutes declare "that they
would decline no danger for the sake of the general safety, and promise" that
they would be the first of all to begin the war; and since they can not at
present take precautions, by giving and receiving hostages, that the affair
shall not be divulged, they require that a solemn assurance be given them by
oath and plighted honor, their military standards being brought together (in
which manner their most sacred obligations are made binding), that they should
not be deserted by the rest of the Gauls on
commencing the war.
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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