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Notes Display Latin text | Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb Book VII Chapter 34: Caesar and Vercingetorix. Caesar divides the army.[52 BC] | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
Having pronounced this decree between [the contending parties], he [note 1] exhorted the Aedui to bury in oblivion their disputes and dissensions, and, laying aside all these things, devote themselves to the war, and expect from him, on the conquest of Gaul, those rewards which they should have earned, and send speedily to him all their cavalry and ten thousand infantry, which he might place in different garrisons to protect his convoys of provisions, and then divided his army into two parts: he gave Labienus four legions to lead into the country of the Senones and Parisii; and led in person six into the country of the Arverni, in the direction of the town of Gergovia, along the banks of the Allier. He gave part of the cavalry to Labienus and kept part to himself. Vercingetorix, on learning this circumstance, broke down all the bridges over the river and began to march on the other bank of the Allier. Note 1: he = Julius Caesar Event: Caesar and Vercingetorix |