§4.27.1Hostes proelio superati, simul atque se ex fuga receperunt, statim ad Caesarem legatos de pace miserunt; obsides sese daturos quaeque imperasset facturos polliciti sunt.
The enemy, defeated in battle, as soon as they recovered themselves from flight, immediately sent ambassadors to Caesar concerning peace; they promised that they would give hostages and perform whatever he should command.
§4.27.2Una cum his legatis Commius Atrebas venit, quem supra demonstraveram a Caesare in Britanniam praemissum.
Together with these ambassadors came Commius the Atrebatian, whom I have mentioned above as having been sent before by Caesar into Britain.
§4.27.3Hunc illi e navi egressum, cum ad eos oratoris modo Caesaris mandata deferret, comprehenderant atque in vincula coniecerant; §4.27.4tum proelio facto remiserunt et in petenda pace eius rei culpam in multitudinem contulerunt et propter imprudentiam ut ignosceretur petiverunt.
They had seized him when he had got out of his ship, although he was carrying the commands of Caesar to them in the character of an ambassador, and had cast him into chains; then, after the battle was fought, they sent him back, and in suing for peace cast the blame of that act upon the multitude, and entreated that it might be pardoned on account of their indiscretion.
§4.27.5Caesar questus quod, cum ultro in continentem legatis missis pacem ab se petissent, bellum sine causa intulissent, ignoscere se imprudentiae dixit obsidesque imperavit; §4.27.6quorum illi partem statim dederunt, partem ex longinquioribus locis arcessitam paucis diebus sese daturos dixerunt.
Caesar, having complained that, though they had sued for peace from him of their own accord by sending ambassadors to the continent, they had made war upon him without cause, said that he would pardon their indiscretion, and demanded hostages; of these they gave a part immediately, and said that they would give the remainder, which had to be brought from more distant places, in a few days.
§4.27.7Interea suos in agros remigrare iusserunt, principesque undique convenire et se civitatesque suas Caesari commendare coeperunt.
Meanwhile they ordered their people to return to the fields, and the chiefs began to assemble from all quarters, and to commend themselves and their states to Caesar.