After he 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;
Cum per eorum fines triduum iter fecisset, inveniebat ex captivis Sabim flumen a castris suis non amplius milibus passuum X abesse;
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;
trans id flumen omnes Nervios consedisse adventumque ibi Romanorum expectare una cum Atrebatibus et Viromanduis, finitimis suis
for they had persuaded both these nations to try the same fortune of war [as themselves]:
(nam his utrisque persuaserant uti eandem belli fortunam experirentur);
that the forces of the Aduatuci were also expected by them, and were on their march;
expectari etiam ab iis Atuatucorum copias atque esse in itinere;
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.
mulieres quique per aetatem ad pugnam inutiles viderentur in eum locum coniecisse quo propter paludes exercitui aditus non esset.