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title: "Gallic War — Book II"
author: "Julius Caesar"
translator: "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 7 of 35
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-ii/7/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book II, section 7. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-ii/7/"
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# Gallic War — Book II

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

## 7. Book II — Chapter 7

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-ii/7/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-ii/7/#p-N

[¶0] Thither, immediately after midnight, Caesar, using as guides the same persons who had come to him as messengers from Iccius, sends some Numidian and Cretan archers, and some Balearian slingers as a relief to the towns-people, by whose arrival both a desire to resist together with the hope of [making good their] defense, was infused into the Remi, and, for the same reason, the hope of gaining the town, abandoned the enemy.

> Latin: Eo de media nocte Caesar isdem ducibus usus qui nuntii ab Iccio venerant, Numidas et Cretas sagittarios et funditores Baleares subsidio oppidanis mittit; quorum adventu et Remis cum spe defensionis studium propugnandi accessit et hostibus eadem de causa spes potiundi oppidi discessit.

[¶1] Therefore, after staying a short time before the town, and laying waste the country of the Remi, when all the villages and buildings which they could approach had been burned, they hastened with all their forces to the camp of Caesar, and encamped within less than two miles [of it];

> Latin: Itaque paulisper apud oppidum morati agrosque Remorum depopulati, omnibus vicis aedificiisque quo adire potuerant incensis, ad castra Caesaris omnibus copiis contenderunt et a milibus passuum minus duobus castra posuerunt;

[¶2] and their camp, as was indicated by the smoke and fires, extended more than eight miles in breadth.

> Latin: quae castra, ut fumo atque ignibus significabatur, amplius milibus passuum VIII latitudinem patebant.