3.
Accordingly, while the winter was not yet ended, having concentrated the four
nearest legions, he marched unexpectedly into the territories of the
Nervii, and before they could either assemble or retreat, after
capturing a large number of cattle and of men, and wasting their lands and
giving up that booty to the soldiers, compelled them to enter into a surrender
and give him hostages. That business having been speedily executed, he again led
his legions back into winter-quarters. Having proclaimed a council of Gaul in the beginning of the spring, as he had been accustomed [to
do], when the deputies from the rest, except the Senones , the Carnutes, and the Treviri , had come, judging this to be the commencement of war and
revolt, that he might appear to consider all things of less consequence [than
that war], he transfers the council to Lutetia of the Parisii . These were adjacent to the Senones , and had united their state to them during the memory of
their fathers, but were thought to have no part in the present plot. Having
proclaimed this from the tribunal, he advances the same day toward the Senones with his legions, and arrives among them by long marches.
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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