32.
The Segui and Condrusi, of the nation and
number of the Germans, and who are between the
Eburones and the Treviri , sent embassadors to Caesar to
entreat that he would not regard them in the number of his enemies, nor consider
that the cause of all the Germans on this side the
Rhine was one and the same; that they had formed no plans of war,
and had sent no auxiliaries to Ambiorix. Caesar, having ascertained this fact by an examination of his
prisoners, commanded that if any of the Eburones in their flight
had repaired to them, they should be sent back to him; he assures them that if
they did that, he will not injure their territories. Then, having divided his
forces into three parts, he sent the baggage of all the legions to
Aduatuca. That is the name of a fort. This is nearly in the
middle of the Eburones, where Titurius and
Aurunculeius had been quartered for the purpose of
wintering. This place he selected as well on other accounts as because the
fortifications of the previous year remained, in order that he might relieve the
labor of the soldiers. He left the fourteenth legion as a guard for the baggage,
one of those three which he had lately raised in Italy and
brought over. Over that legion and camp he places Q. Tullius
Cicero and gives him 200 horse.
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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