Florus meanwhile followed up his designs and tried
to induce a squadron of cavalry levied among the Treveri, trained in our
service and discipline, to begin hostilities by
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a massacre of the Roman
traders. He corrupted a few of the men, but the majority were steadfast in
their allegiance. A host however of debtors and dependents took up arms, and
they were on their way to the forest passes known as the
Arduenna, when they were stopped by legions which
Visellius and Silius had sent from their respective armies, by opposite
routes, to meet them. Julius Indus from the same state, who was at feud with
Florus and therefore particularly eager to render us a service, was sent on
in advance with a picked force, and dispersed the undisciplined rabble.
Florus after eluding the conquerors by hiding himself in one place after
another, at last when he saw some soldiers who had barred every possible
escape, fell by his own hand. Such was the end of the rebellion of the
Treveri.