§5.2.1His confectis rebus conventibusque peractis, in citeriorem Galliam revertitur atque inde ad exercitum proficiscitur.
These affairs being dispatched and the assizes completed, he returns into Hither Gaul, and thence sets out for the army.
§5.2.2Eo cum venisset, circumitis omnibus hibernis, singulari militum studio in summa omnium rerum inopia circiter sescentas eius generis cuius supra demonstravimus naves et longas XXVIII invenit instructas neque multum abesse ab eo quin paucis diebus deduci possint.
When he had arrived there, having gone round all the winter quarters, he finds that by the singular zeal of the soldiers, in spite of an extreme scarcity of all materials, about six hundred ships of that class which we have described above, and twenty-eight long ships, had been built, and were not far from that state that they could be launched in a few days.
§5.2.3Collaudatis militibus atque eis qui negotio praefuerant, quid fieri velit ostendit atque omnes ad portum Itium convenire iubet, quo ex portu commodissimum in Britanniam traiectum esse cognoverat, circiter milium passuum XXX transmissum a continenti: huic rei quod satis esse visum est militum reliquit; §5.2.4ipse cum legionibus expeditis IIII et equitibus DCCC in fines Treverorum proficiscitur, quod hi neque ad concilia veniebant neque imperio parebant Germanosque Transrhenanos sollicitare dicebantur.
Having highly commended the soldiers and those who had presided over the work, he points out what he wishes to be done, and commands all to assemble at Portus Itius, from which port he had learned that the passage into Britain was most convenient, being a crossing of about thirty miles from the continent: he left for this purpose what seemed to be a sufficient number of soldiers; he himself sets out for the territories of the Treveri with four legions without baggage, and eight hundred horse, because they neither attended the councils, nor obeyed his command, and were said to be tampering with the Transrhenane Germans.