6.
There were in all two routes, by which they could go forth from their country one
through the Sequani narrow and difficult, between Mount Jura and the river Rhone (by which scarcely
one wagon at a time could be led; there was, moreover, a very high mountain
overhanging, so that a very few might easily intercept them; the other, through
our Province, much easier and freer from obstacles, because the Rhone flows between the boundaries of the Helvetii and those of the Allobroges, who had lately
been subdued, and is in some places crossed by a ford. The furthest town of the
Allobroges, and the nearest to the territories of the Helvetii, is Geneva. From this town a bridge extends to the Helvetii. They thought that they should either persuade the
Allobroges, because they did not seem as yet well-affected
toward the Roman people, or compel them by force to
allow them to pass through their territories. Having provided every thing for
the expedition, they appoint a day, on which they should all meet on the bank of
the Rhone. This day was the
fifth before the kalends of April [i.e. the 28th of
March], in the consulship of Lucius Piso and
Aulus Gabinius [B.C. 58.]
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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