33.
Having divided the army, he orders T. Labienus to
proceed with three legions toward the ocean into those parts which border on the
Menapii; he sends C. Trebonius with a
like number of legions to lay waste that district which lies contiguous to the
Aduatuci; he himself determines to go with the remaining three
to the river Sambre , which flows into the Meuse , and to the most remote parts of Arduenna,
whither he heard that Ambiorix had gone with a few horse. When
departing, he promises that he will return before the end of the seventh day, on
which day he was aware corn was due to that legion which was being left in
garrison. He directs Labienus and Trebonius to return by the same day, if they can do so agreeably to
the interests of the republic; so that their measures having been mutually
imparted, and the plans of the enemy having been discovered, they might be able
to commence a different line of operations.
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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