41.
The Germans, despairing of taking the camp by storm,
because they saw that our men had taken up their position on the fortifications,
retreated beyond the Rhine with that plunder which
they had deposited in the woods. And so great was the alarm, even after the
departure of the enemy, that when C. Volusenus, who had
been sent with the cavalry, arrived that night, he could not gain credence that
Caesar was close at hand with his army safe. Fear
had so pre-occupied the minds of all, that their reason being almost estranged,
they said that all the other forces having been cut off, the cavalry alone had
arrived there by flight, and asserted that, if the army were safe, the Germans would not have attacked the camp; which fear
the arrival of Caesar 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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