§4.30.1Quibus rebus cognitis, principes Britanniae, qui post proelium ad Caesarem convenerant, inter se conlocuti, cum et equites et naves et frumentum Romanis deesse intellegerent et paucitatem militum ex castrorum exiguitate cognoscerent, quae hoc erant etiam angustior quod sine impedimentis Caesar legiones transportaverat, §4.30.2optimum factu esse duxerunt rebellione facta frumento commeatuque nostros prohibere et rem in hiemem producere, quod his superatis aut reditu interclusis neminem postea belli inferendi causa in Britanniam transiturum confidebant.
Having learned these things, the chiefs of Britain, who had assembled near Caesar after the battle, conferred with one another; since they understood that cavalry, ships, and grain were lacking to the Romans, and recognized the small number of soldiers from the smallness of the camp, which was even narrower for this reason, that Caesar had transported the legions without baggage, they decided that the best thing to do was, having renewed the rebellion, to cut off our men from grain and provisions and to prolong the business into the winter, because they were confident that, if these men were overcome or cut off from return, no one would afterwards cross over into Britain for the purpose of making war.
§4.30.3Itaque rursus coniuratione facta paulatim ex castris discedere et suos clam ex agris deducere coeperunt.
And so, having formed a conspiracy again, they began to depart gradually from the camp and to lead their own men secretly out of the fields.