§6.3.1Itaque nondum hieme confecta proximis quattuor coactis legionibus de improviso in fines Nerviorum contendit et, §6.3.2priusquam illi aut convenire aut profugere possent, magno pecoris atque hominum numero capto atque ea praeda militibus concessa vastatisque agris in deditionem venire atque obsides sibi dare coegit.
Therefore, before the winter was yet ended, having assembled the four nearest legions, he marched unexpectedly into the territories of the Nervii, and, before they could either assemble or escape, having captured a large number of cattle and people, and having granted that booty to the soldiers and wasted their fields, he compelled them to surrender and to give him hostages.
§6.3.3Eo celeriter confecto negotio rursus in hiberna legiones reduxit.
Having speedily completed this business, he led the legions back again into winter quarters.
§6.3.4Concilio Galliae primo vere, ut instituerat, indicto, cum reliqui praeter Senones, Carnutes Treverosque venissent, initium belli ac defectionis hoc esse arbitratus, ut omnia postponere videretur, concilium Lutetiam Parisiorum transfert.
Having appointed a council of Gaul at the beginning of spring, as he had determined, when the others had come except the Senones, the Carnutes, and the Treveri, thinking this to be the beginning of war and defection, that he might appear to postpone all other matters, he transfers the council to Lutetia of the Parisii.
§6.3.5Confines erant hi Senonibus civitatemque patrum memoria coniunxerant, sed ab hoc consilio afuisse existimabantur.
These were neighboring to the Senones, and had united their state with them in the memory of their fathers, but were thought to have held aloof from this design.
§6.3.6Hac re pro suggestu pronuntiata eodem die cum legionibus in Senones proficiscitur magnisque itineribus eo pervenit.
This matter having been pronounced from the tribunal, on the same day he sets out with the legions against the Senones, and arrives there by forced marches.