§4.31.1At Caesar, etsi nondum eorum consilia cognoverat, tamen et ex eventu navium suarum et ex eo quod obsides dare intermiserant fore id quod accidit suspicabatur.
But Caesar, although he had not yet learned of their plans, nevertheless, both from what had happened to his ships and from the fact that they had interrupted the delivery of hostages, suspected that what actually happened would occur.
§4.31.2Itaque ad omnes casus subsidia comparabat.
Therefore, he prepared measures against every emergency.
Nam et frumentum ex agris cotidie in castra conferebat et, quae gravissime adflictae erant naves, earum materia atque aere ad reliquas reficiendas utebatur et quae ad eas res erant usui ex continenti comportari iubebat.
For he not only brought grain daily from the fields into the camp, but also used the timber and bronze of those ships which had been most severely damaged to repair the rest, and ordered the things which were of use for these purposes to be brought from the continent.
§4.31.3Itaque, cum summo studio a militibus administraretur, XII navibus amissis, reliquis ut navigari satis commode posset effecit.
And so, as the work was carried out by the soldiers with the greatest zeal, although twelve ships were lost, he made it possible for the rest to be sailed with sufficient convenience.