32.
But Drapes in conjunction with Luterius, knowing that
Caninius was at hand with the legions, and that they themselves
could not without certain destruction enter the boundaries of the province,
while an army was in pursuit of them, and being no longer at liberty to roam up
and down and pillage, halt in the country of the Cadurci, as
Luterius had once in his prosperity possessed a powerful
influence over the inhabitants, who were his countrymen, and being always the
author of new projects, had considerable authority among the barbarians; with
his own and Drapes' troops he seized Uxellodunum, a town formerly
in vassalage to him, and strongly fortified by its natural situation; and
prevailed on the inhabitants to join him.
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