44.
While he was considering these things an opportunity of acting successfully
seemed to offer. For, when he had come into the smaller camp for the purpose of
securing the works, he noticed that the hill in the possession of the enemy was
stripped of men, although, on the former days, it could scarcely be seen on
account of the numbers on it. Being astonished, he inquires the reason of it
from the deserters, a great number of whom flocked to him daily. They all
concurred in asserting, what Caesar himself had already
ascertained by his scouts, that the back of that hill was almost level; but
likewise woody and narrow, by which there was a pass to the other side of the
town; that they had serious apprehensions for this place, and had no other idea,
on the occupation of one hill by the Romans, than
that, if they should lose the other, they would be almost surrounded, and cut
off from all egress and foraging; that they were all summoned by
Vercingetorix to fortify this place.
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