47.
Having finished these affairs, he returned to his legions among the
Belgae and wintered at Nemetocenna : there he got intelligence that Comius,
the Atrebatian had had an engagement with his cavalry. For when
Antonius had gone into winter quarters, and the state of the
Atrebates continued in their allegiance, Comius,
who, after that wound which I before mentioned, was always ready to join his
countrymen upon every commotion, that they might not want a person to advise and
head them in the management of the war, when his state submitted to the Romans, supported himself and his adherents on plunder
by means of his cavalry, infested the roads, and intercepted several convoys
which were bringing provisions to the Roman quarters.
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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