46.
Caesar having received the letter about the eleventh
hour of the day, immediately sends a messenger to the Bellovaci, to
M. Crassus, questor there, whose winter-quarters
were twenty-five miles distant from him. He orders the legion to set forward in
the middle of the night, and come to him with dispatch. Crassus sets out with the messenger. He sends another to C. Fabius, the lieutenant, ordering him to lead forth his
legion into the territories of the Atrebates, to which he knew his
march must be made. He writes to Labienus to come with
his legion to the frontiers of the Nervii, if he could do so to the
advantage of the commonwealth: he does not consider that the remaining portion
of the army, because it was somewhat further distant, should be waited for; but
assembles about 400 horse from the nearest winter-quarters.
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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