§7.12.1Vercingetorix, ubi de Caesaris adventu cognovit, oppugnatione destitit atque obviam Caesari proficiscitur.
Vercingetorix, when he learned of Caesar's arrival, abandoned the siege and set out to meet Caesar.
§7.12.2Ille oppidum Biturigum positum in via Noviodunum oppugnare instituerat.
The latter had resolved to attack Noviodunum, a town of the Bituriges situated on his route.
§7.12.3Quo ex oppido cum legati ad eum venissent oratum ut sibi ignosceret suaeque vitae consuleret, ut celeritate reliquas res conficeret, qua pleraque erat consecutus, arma conferri, equos produci, obsides dari iubet.
When envoys came to him from this town to beg that he would pardon them and spare their lives, in order that he might complete the remaining matters with the same speed by which he had accomplished most things, he ordered the arms to be collected, the horses to be brought out, and hostages to be given.
§7.12.4Parte iam obsidum tradita, cum reliqua administrarentur, centurionibus et paucis militibus intromissis, qui arma iumentaque conquirerent, equitatus hostium procul visus est, qui agmen Vercingetorigis antecesserat.
When a part of the hostages had already been delivered, while the other matters were being performed, and the centurions and a few soldiers had been sent in to search for arms and pack-animals, the enemy's cavalry, which had preceded the march of Vercingetorix, was seen in the distance.
§7.12.5Quem simul atque oppidani conspexerunt atque in spem auxili venerunt, clamore sublato arma capere, portas claudere, murum complere coeperunt.
As soon as the townsmen descried them and conceived hope of assistance, raising a shout, they began to take up arms, shut the gates, and man the wall.
Centuriones in oppido, §7.12.6cum ex significatione Gallorum novi aliquid ab eis iniri consili intellexissent, gladiis destrictis portas occupaverunt suosque omnes incolumes receperunt.
The centurions in the town, when they understood from the behavior of the Gauls that some new design was being entered into by them, drawing their swords, seized the gates and recovered all their men in safety.