26.
About fifteen days after they had come into winter-quarters, the beginning of a
sudden insurrection and revolt arose from Ambiorix and
Cativolcus, who, though they had met with Sabinus and Cotta at the borders of their
kingdom, and had conveyed corn into our winter-quarters, induced by the messages
of Indutiomarus, one of the Treviri , excited their people, and after having suddenly assailed
the soldiers engaged in procuring wood, came with a large body to attack the
camp. When our men had speedily taken up arms and had ascended the rampart, and
sending out some Spanish horse on one side, had proved conquerors
in a cavalry action, the enemy, despairing of success, drew off their troops
from the assault. Then they shouted, according to their custom, that some of our
men should go forward to a conference, [alleging] that they had some things
which they desired to say respecting the common interest, by which they trusted
their disputes could be removed.
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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