9.
The embassadors said that they would report these things to their country men;
and, after having deliberated on the matter, would return to Caesar after the third day, they begged that he would not in the
mean time advance his camp nearer to them. Caesar said
that he could not grant them even that; for he had learned that they had sent a
great part of their cavalry over the Meuse to the
Ambivariti, some days before, for the purpose of plundering and
procuring forage. He supposed that they were then waiting for these horse, and
that the delay was caused on this account.
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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