§1.48.1Eodem die castra promovit et milibus passuum VI a Caesaris castris sub monte consedit.
On the same day he moved his camp forward and pitched camp under a mountain six miles from Caesar's camp.
§1.48.2Postridie eius diei praeter castra Caesaris suas copias traduxit et milibus passuum duobus ultra eum castra fecit eo consilio uti frumento commeatuque qui ex Sequanis et Haeduis supportaretur Caesarem intercluderet.
On the day after that day he led his forces past Caesar's camp and made camp two miles beyond him, with the design of cutting off Caesar from the grain and provisions which were being brought up from the Sequani and the Haedui.
§1.48.3Ex eo die dies continuos V Caesar pro castris suas copias produxit et aciem instructam habuit, ut, si vellet Ariovistus proelio contendere, ei potestas non deesset.
From that day, for five consecutive days, Caesar led out his forces in front of the camp and kept his battle line drawn up, so that, if Ariovistus wished to engage in battle, the opportunity might not be wanting to him.
§1.48.4Ariovistus his omnibus diebus exercitum castris continuit, equestri proelio cotidie contendit.
Ariovistus kept his army in camp all these days, but engaged daily in cavalry battles.
Genus hoc erat pugnae, quo se Germani exercuerant: §1.48.5equitum milia erant VI, totidem numero pedites velocissimi ac fortissimi, quos ex omni copia singuli singulos suae salutis causa delegerant:
This was the kind of fighting in which the Germans had trained themselves: there were six thousand cavalry, and as many in number of the swiftest and bravest infantry, whom each of the cavalry had selected from the whole force, one for one, for the sake of his own safety.
§1.48.6cum his in proeliis versabantur, ad eos se equites recipiebant; hi, si quid erat durius, concurrebant, si qui graviore vulnere accepto equo deciderat, circumsistebant; §1.48.7si quo erat longius prodeundum aut celerius recipiendum, tanta erat horum exercitatione celeritas ut iubis sublevati equorum cursum adaequarent.
With these they associated in battles; to them the cavalry would retreat; these, if there was any harder struggle, would run to help; if anyone, having received a rather severe wound, had fallen from his horse, they would stand around him; if it was necessary to advance further anywhere or to retreat more quickly, such was their speed from practice that, supported by the manes of the horses, they kept pace with their speed.