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38.
Contractus deinde omnis exercitus sub pellibus
habitus est ad reliqua belli perpetranda. auxitque copias
Caesar missis ex Germania duobus legionariorum milibus,
octo auxiliarium cohortibus ac mille equitibus; quorum
adventu nonani legionario milite suppleti sunt, cohortes
alaeque novis hibernaculis locatae quodque nationum ambiguum aut adversum fuerat igni atque ferro vastatum.
sed nihil aeque quam fames adfligebat serendis frugibus
incuriosos, et omni aetate ad bellum versa, dum nostros
commeatus sibi destinant. gentesque praeferoces tardius
ad pacem inclinabant, quia Iulius Classicianus, successor
Cato missus et Suetonio discors, bonum publicum privatis
simultatibus impediebat disperseratque novum legatum
opperiendum esse, sine hostili ira et superbia victoris clementer deditis consulturum. simul in urbem mandabat,
nullum proeliorum finem expectarent, nisi succederetur
Suetonio, cuius adversa pravitati ipsius, prospera ad fortunam referebat.
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