4.
Caesar promises his soldiers, as a reward for their
labor and patience, in cheerfully submitting to hardships from the severity of
the winter, the difficulty of the roads, and the intolerable cold, two hundred
sestertii each, and to every centurian two thousand, to be given instead of
plunder: and sending his legions back to quarters, he himself returned on the
fortieth day to Bibracte . While he was dispensing justice there, the
Bituriges send embassadors to him, to entreat his aid against
the Carnutes, who they complained had made war against them. Upon
this intelligence, though he had not remained more than eighteen days in winter
quarters, he draws the fourteenth and sixth legion out of quarters on the Saone , where
he had posted them as mentioned in a former Commentary, to procure supplies of
corn. With these two legions he marches in pursuit of the Carnutes.
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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