§1.35.1His responsis ad Caesarem relatis, iterum ad eum Caesar legatos cum his mandatis mittit: §1.35.2quoniam tanto suo populique Romani beneficio adfectus, cum in consulatu suo rex atque amicus a senatu appellatus esset, hanc sibi populoque Romano gratiam referret ut in conloquium venire invitatus gravaretur neque de communi re dicendum sibi et cognoscendum putaret, haec esse quae ab eo postularet: §1.35.3primum ne quam multitudinem hominum amplius trans Rhenum in Galliam traduceret; deinde obsides quos haberet ab Haeduis redderet Sequanisque permitteret ut quos illi haberent voluntate eius reddere illis liceret; neve Haeduos iniuria lacesseret neve his sociisque eorum bellum inferret.
These replies having been brought back to Caesar, Caesar again sends ambassadors to him with these instructions: that since, although treated with such great kindness by himself and the Roman people, when in his own consulship he had been styled king and friend by the senate, he was making such a return of gratitude to himself and the Roman people as to object, when invited, to come to a conference, and not to think that he ought to speak or learn anything regarding their common interest, these were the things which he demanded of him: first, that he should not bring any more multitude of men across the Rhine into Gaul; next, that he should restore the hostages which he had from the Haedui, and permit the Sequani to restore to them, with his consent, those hostages which they held; and that he should not provoke the Haedui by injury, nor make war upon them and their allies.
§1.35.4Si [id] ita fecisset, sibi populoque Romano perpetuam gratiam atque amicitiam cum eo futuram; si non impetraret, sese, quoniam M. Messala, M. Pisone consulibus senatus censuisset uti quicumque Galliam provinciam obtineret, quod commodo rei publicae facere posset, Haeduos ceterosque amicos populi Romani defenderet, se Haeduorum iniurias non neglecturum.
If he should do this, he and the Roman people would have lasting gratitude and friendship with him; if he did not obtain his request, since in the consulship of Marcus Messala and Marcus Piso the senate had decreed that whoever should hold the province of Gaul should, so far as he could do so consistently with the interest of the commonwealth, defend the Haedui and other friends of the Roman people, he would not overlook the wrongs done to the Haedui.