§7.21.1Conclamat omnis multitudo et suo more armis concrepat, quod facere in eo consuerunt cuius orationem approbant: summum esse Vercingetorigem ducem, nec de eius fide dubitandum, nec maiore ratione bellum administrari posse.
The whole multitude shouted and clashed their arms after their custom, as they are wont to do in the case of him whose speech they approve: that Vercingetorix was a consummate general, and that there was no room for doubting his loyalty, nor could the war be conducted with better judgment.
§7.21.2Statuunt, ut X milia hominum delecta ex omnibus copiis in oppidum mittantur, §7.21.3nec solis Biturigibus communem salutem committendam censent, quod paene in eo, si id oppidum retinuissent, summam victoriae constare intellegebant.
They determine that ten thousand men, selected from all the forces, should be sent into the town, and they do not think that the common safety should be committed to the Bituriges alone, because they understood that the issue of the whole victory depended almost entirely on that, if they should retain that town.