3.
When the appointed day came, the Carnutes, under the command of
Cotuatus and Conetodunus, desperate men, meet
together at Genabum , and slay the Roman citizens who
had settled there for the purpose of trading (among the rest, Caius Fusius
Cita, a distinguished Roman knight, who by
Caesar's orders had presided over the provision
department), and plunder their property. The report is quickly spread among all
the states of Gaul; for, whenever a more
important and remarkable event takes place, they transmit the intelligence
through their lands and districts by a shout; the others take it up in
succession, and pass it to their neighbors, as happened on this occasion; for
the things which were done at Genabum at sunrise, were heard in the territories of the
Arverni before the end of the first watch, which is an extent
of more than a hundred and sixty miles.
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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