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Annals by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book III Chapter 45: Revolt of the Gauls. The Aedui (cont.)[AD 21]
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Silius meantime was advancing with two legions, and having sent forward some auxiliary troops was ravaging those villages of the Sequani which, situated on the border, adjoin the Aedui, and were associated with them in arms. He then pushed on by forced marches to Augustodunum, his standard-bearers vying in zeal, and even the privates loudly protesting against any halt for their usual rest or during the hours of night. "Only," they said, "let us have the foe face to face; that will be enough for victory." Twelve miles from Augustodunum they saw before them Sacrovir and his army in an open plain. His men in armour he had posted in the van, his light infantry on the wings, and the half-armed in the rear. He himself rode amid the foremost ranks on a splendid charger, reminding them of the ancient glories of the Gauls, of the disasters they had inflicted on the Romans, how grand would be the freedom of the victorious, how more intolerable than ever the slavery of a second conquest.

Event: Revolt of the Gauls of 21 AD