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title: "Gallic War — Book VI"
author: "Julius Caesar"
translator: "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 33 of 44
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/33/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book VI, section 33. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/33/"
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# Gallic War — Book VI

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

## 33. Book VI — Chapter 33

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/33/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/33/#p-N

[¶0] Having divided the army, he orders T. Labienus to proceed with three legions toward the ocean into those parts which border on the Menapii;

> Latin: Partito exercitu Titum Labienum cum legionibus tribus ad Oceanum versus in eas partes quae Menapios attingunt proficisci iubet;

[¶1] he sends C. Trebonius with a like number of legions to lay waste that district which lies contiguous to the Aduatuci;

> Latin: Gaium Trebonium cum pari legionum numero ad eam regionem quae ad Aduatucos adiacet depopulandam mittit;

[¶2] he himself determines to go with the remaining three to the river Sambre, which flows into the Meuse, and to the most remote parts of Arduenna, whither he heard that Ambiorix had gone with a few horse.

> Latin: ipse cum reliquis tribus ad flumen Scaldem, quod influit in Mosam, extremasque Arduennae partis ire constituit, quo cum paucis equitibus profectum Ambiorigem audiebat.

[¶3] When departing, he promises that he will return before the end of the seventh day, on which day he was aware corn was due to that legion which was being left in garrison.

> Latin: Discedens post diem septimum sese reversurum confirmat; quam ad diem ei legioni quae in praesidio relinquebatur deberi frumentum sciebat.

[¶4] He directs Labienus and Trebonius to return by the same day, if they can do so agreeably to the interests of the republic; so that their measures having been mutually imparted, and the plans of the enemy having been discovered, they might be able to commence a different line of operations.

> Latin: Labienum Treboniumque hortatur, si rei publicae commodo facere possint, ad eum diem revertantur, ut rursus communicato consilio exploratisque hostium rationibus aliud initium belli capere possint.