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When Caesar was setting out for Italy, he
sent Servius Galba with the twelfth legion and part of the cavalry,
against the Nantuates, the Veragri, and
Seduni, who extend from the territories of the
Allobroges, and the lake of Geneva , and the River Rhone to the top of the
Alps. The reason for sending him was, that he desired that the pass
along the Alps , through which [the
Roman] merchants had been accustomed to travel with great
danger, and under great imposts, should be opened. He permitted him, if he
thought it necessary, to station the legion in these places, for the purpose of
wintering. Galba having fought some successful battles and stormed
several of their forts, upon embassadors being sent to him from all parts and
hostages given and a peace concluded, determined to station two cohorts among
the Nantuates, and to winter in person with the other cohorts of
that legion in a village of the Veragri, which is called
Octodurus; and this village being situated in a valley, with a
small plain annexed to it, is bounded on all sides by very high mountains. As
this village was divided into two parts by a river, he granted one part of it to
the Gauls, and assigned the other, which had been
left by them unoccupied, to the cohorts to winter in. He fortified this [latter]
part with a rampart and a ditch.
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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