27.
The next day Caesar, the tower being advanced, and the
works which he had determined to raise being arranged, a violent storm arising,
thought this no bad time for executing his designs, because he observed the
guards arranged on the walls a little too negligently, and therefore ordered his
own men to engage in their work more remissly, and pointed out what he wished to
be done. He drew up his soldiers in a secret position within the vineae, and
exhorts them to reap, at least, the harvest of victory proportionate to their
exertions. He proposed a reward for those who should first scale the walls, and
gave the signal to the soldiers. They suddenly flew out from all quarters and
quickly filled the walls.
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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