16.
After he had made three days march through their territories, he discovered from
some prisoners, that the river
Sambre
was not more than ten miles from his camp; that all the
Nervii had stationed themselves on the other side of that
river, and together with the Atrebates and the
Veromandui, their neighbors, were there awaiting the arrival of
the Romans; for they had persuaded both these nations
to try the same fortune of war [as themselves]: that the forces of the
Aduatuci were also expected by them, and were on their march;
that they had put their women, and those who through age appeared useless for
war, in a place to which there was no approach for an army, on account of the
marshes.
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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