2.
That this notion might not be confirmed among the Gauls, Caesar left Marcus
Antonius, his questor, in charge of his quarters, and set out himself
with a guard of horse, the day before the kalends of January, from
the town Bibracte , to the thirteenth legion, which he had stationed in the
country of the Bituriges, not far from the territories of the
Aedui, and joined to it the eleventh legion which was next it.
Leaving two cohorts to guard the baggage, he leads the rest of his army into the
most plentiful part of the country of the Bituriges; who,
possessing an extensive territory and several towns, were not to be deterred, by
a single legion quartered among them, from making warlike preparation, and
forming combinations.
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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