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Notes Display Latin text | Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb Book II Chapter 16: War with the Belgae. To the Sambre.[57 BC] | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
After he [Note 1] had made three days march through their territories, he discovered from some prisoners, that the river Sambre was not more than ten miles from his camp; that all the Nervii had stationed themselves on the other side of that river, and together with the Atrebates and the Veromandui, their neighbors, were there awaiting the arrival of the Romans; for they had persuaded both these nations to try the same fortune of war [as themselves]: that the forces of the Aduatuci were also expected by them, and were on their march; that they had put their women, and those who through age appeared useless for war, in a place to which there was no approach for an army, on account of the marshes. Note 1: he = Julius Caesar Event: War with the Belgae |