These matters being settled, Caesar went to port Itius with the legions. There he discovers that fortyBoth LX and XL are attested.
His rebus constitutis Caesar ad portum Itium cum legionibus pervenit.
Some editions read sixty here. ships, which had been built in the country of the Meldi, having been driven back by a storm, had been unable to maintain their course, and had returned to the same port from which they had set out; he finds the rest ready for sailing, and furnished with every thing.
Ibi cognoscit LX naves, quae in Meldis factae erant, tempestate reiectas cursum tenere non potuisse atque eodem unde erant profectae revertisse; reliquas paratas ad navigandum atque omnibus rebus instructas invenit.
In the same place, the cavalry of the whole of Gaul, in number 4,000, assembles, and [also] the chief persons of all the states;
Eodem equitatus totius Galliae convenit, numero milium quattuor, principesque ex omnibus civitatibus.
he had determined to leave in Gaul a very few of them, whose fidelity toward him he had clearly discerned, and take the rest with him as hostages; because he feared a commotion in Gaul when he should be absent.
Ex quibus perpaucos, quorum in se fidem perspexerat, relinquere in Gallia, reliquos obsidum loco secum ducere decreverat, quod, cum ipse abesset, motum Galliae verebatur.