13.
Caesar orders the horse to be drawn out of the camp, and
commences a cavalry action. His men being now distressed, Caesar sends to their aid about four hundred German horse, which he had determined, at the beginning, to keep
with himself. The Gauls could not withstand their attack, but were
put to flight, and retreated to their main body, after losing a great number of
men. When they were routed, the townsmen, again intimidated, arrested those
persons by whose exertions they thought that the mob had been roused, and
brought them to Caesar, and surrendered themselves to
him. When these affairs were accomplished, Caesar
marched to the Avaricum , which was the largest and best fortified town in the
territories of the Bituriges, and situated in a most fertile tract
of country; because he confidently expected that on taking that town, he would
reduce beneath his dominion the state of the Bituriges.
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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