§7.54.1Ibi a Viridomaro atque Eporedorige Aeduis appellatus discit cum omni equitatu Litaviccum ad sollicitandos Aeduos profectum: opus esse ipsos antecedere ad confirmandam civitatem.
There, being addressed by the Aeduans Viridomarus and Eporedorix, he learned that Litaviccus had set out with all the cavalry to solicit the Aedui, and that it was necessary for them to go ahead to secure the allegiance of the state.
§7.54.2Etsi multis iam rebus perfidiam Aeduorum perspectam habebat atque horum discessu admaturari defectionem civitatis existimabat, tamen eos retinendos non constituit, ne aut inferre iniuriam videretur aut dare timoris aliquam suspicionem.
Although he had already clearly perceived the treachery of the Aedui from many circumstances, and thought that the defection of the state would be hastened by their departure, yet he determined not to detain them, lest he should either seem to inflict an injury or give some suspicion of fear.
Discedentibus his breviter sua in Aeduos merita exposuit, §7.54.3quos et quam humiles accepisset, compulsos in oppida, multatos agris omnibus ereptis copiis, imposito stipendio, obsidibus summa cum contumelia extortis, §7.54.4et quam in fortunam quamque in amplitudinem deduxisset, ut non solum in pristinum statum redissent, sed omnium temporum dignitatem et gratiam antecessisse viderentur.
To them, as they were departing, he briefly set forth his own services toward the Aedui: in what condition and how humbled he had received them, driven into their towns, deprived of all their lands, stripped of their resources, a tribute imposed upon them, and their hostages extorted with the greatest insult, and to what fortune and what grandeur he had brought them, so that they not only returned to their former state, but seemed to have surpassed the dignity and influence of all previous times.
His datis mandatis eos ab se dimisit.
Having given these instructions, he dismissed them from him.