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title: "Gallic War — Book IV"
author: "Julius Caesar"
translator: "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 9 of 38
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-iv/9/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book IV, section 9. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-iv/9/"
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# Gallic War — Book IV

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

## 9. Book IV — Chapter 9

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-iv/9/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-iv/9/#p-N

[¶0] The embassadors said that they would report these things to their country men; and, after having deliberated on the matter, would return to Caesar after the third day, they begged that he would not in the mean time advance his camp nearer to them.

> Latin: Legati haec se ad suos relaturos dixerunt et re deliberata post diem tertium ad Caesarem reversuros: interea ne propius se castra moveret petierunt.

[¶1] Caesar said that he could not grant them even that;

> Latin: Ne id quidem Caesar ab se impetrari posse dixit.

[¶2] for he had learned that they had sent a great part of their cavalry over the Meuse to the Ambivariti, some days before, for the purpose of plundering and procuring forage. He supposed that they were then waiting for these horse, and that the delay was caused on this account.

> Latin: Cognoverat enim magnam partem equitatus ab iis aliquot diebus ante praedandi frumentandi causa ad Ambivaritos trans Mosam missam: hos expectari equites atque eius rei causa moram interponi arbitrabatur.