87.
Caesar sends at first young Brutus, with six cohorts, and afterward Caius Fabius,
his lieutenant, with seven others: finally, as they fought more obstinately, he
leads up fresh men to the assistance of his soldiers. After renewing the action,
and repulsing the enemy, he marches in the direction in which he had sent Labienus, drafts four cohorts from the nearest redoubt,
and orders part of the cavalry to follow him, and part to make the circuit of
the external fortifications and attack the enemy in the rear. Labienus, when neither the ramparts or ditches could check the onset
of the enemy, informs Caesar by messengers of what he
intended to do. Caesar hastens to share in the action.
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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