16.
By this battle the war with the Veneti and the whole of the sea
coast was finished; for both all the youth, and all, too, of more advanced age,
in whom there was any discretion or rank, had assembled in that battle; and they
had collected in that one place whatever naval forces they had anywhere; and
when these were lost, the survivors had no place to retreat to, nor means of
defending their towns. They accordingly surrendered themselves and all their
possessions to Caesar, on whom Caesar thought that punishment should be inflicted the more
severely, in order that for the future the rights of embassadors might be more
carefully respected by barbarians; having, therefore, put to death all their
senate, he sold the rest for slaves.
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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