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title: "Gallic War — Book I"
author: "Julius Caesar"
translator: "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 37 of 54
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-i/37/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book I, section 37. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-i/37/"
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# Gallic War — Book I

*Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn*

## 37. Book I — Chapter 37

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-i/37/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-i/37/#p-N

[¶0] At the same time that this message was delivered to Caesar, embassadors came from the Aedui and the Treviri;

> Latin: Haec eodem tempore Caesari mandata referebantur et legati ab Haeduis et a Treveris veniebant:

[¶1] from the Aedui to complain that the Harudes, who had lately been brought over into Gaul, were ravaging their territories; that they had not been able to purchase peace from Ariovistus, even by giving hostages:

> Latin: Haedui questum quod Harudes, qui nuper in Galliam transportati essent, fines eorum popularentur: sese ne obsidibus quidem datis pacem Ariovisti redimere potuisse;

[¶2] and from the Treviri, [to state] that a hundred cantons of the Suevi had encamped on the banks of the Rhine, and were attempting to cross it; that the brothers, Nasuas and Cimberius, headed them. Being greatly alarmed at these things, Caesar thought that he ought to use all dispatch, lest, if this new band of Suevi should unite with the old troops of Ariovistus, he [Ariovistus] might be less easily withstood.

> Latin: Treveri autem, pagos centum Sueborum ad ripas Rheni consedisse, qui Rhenum transire conarentur; his praeesse Nasuam et Cimberium fratres. Quibus rebus Caesar vehementer commotus maturandum sibi existimavit, ne, si nova manus Sueborum cum veteribus copiis Ariovisti sese coniunxisset, minus facile resisti posset.

[¶3] Having therefore, as quickly as he could, provided a supply of corn, he hastened to Ariovistus by forced marches.

> Latin: Itaque re frumentaria quam celerrime potuit comparata magnis itineribus ad Ariovistum contendit.