C. Iulius Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.34

Caesar has come up from the camp with the guard cohorts, and the Seventh is still surrounded in the grainfields. The passage covers the remainder of that day, the run of bad weather that follows, and the muster the Britons raise in the meantime.

 

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nostrī mīlitēs novum genus pugnae vīdērunt et timuērunt. tum Caesar auxilium tulit. hostēs Caesarem vīdērunt et cōnstitērunt. itaque nostrī mīlitēs iam nōn timēbant.

 

Caesar sīc putāvit: hoc tempus nōn est bonum. hostēs hodiē nōn oppugnābimus. itaque mīlitēs in eōdem locō manēbant. paulō post Caesar legiōnēs in castra redūxit.

 

nostrī mīlitēs omnēs occupātī erant. itaque reliquī Britannī, quī in agrīs erant, discessērunt.

 

tum multōs diēs magnae tempestātēs erant. Rōmānī in castrīs manēbant. Britannī quoque pugnāre nōn poterant.

 

interim barbarī nūntiōs in omnēs partēs mīsērunt. nūntiī suīs dīxērunt: paucī sunt mīlitēs Rōmānī. Rōmānōs ē castrīs expellere possumus. tum magnam praedam capiēmus et semper līberī erimus.

 

itaque Britannī magnam multitūdinem mīlitum et equitum celeriter coēgērunt. tum ad castra Rōmāna vēnērunt.

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