§7.60.1Sub vesperum consilio convocato cohortatus ut ea quae imperasset diligenter industrieque administrarent, naves, quas Metiosedo deduxerat, singulas equitibus Romanis attribuit, et prima confecta vigilia quattuor milia passuum secundo flumine silentio progredi ibique se exspectari iubet.
Having called a council near evening and encouraged them to carry out diligently and industriously those things which he should command, he assigned the ships, which he had brought down from Metiosedum, one by one to Roman knights, and, when the first watch was ended, ordered them to proceed silently four miles downstream and to wait for him there.
§7.60.2Quinque cohortes, quas minime firmas ad dimicandum esse existimabat, castris praesidio relinquit; §7.60.3quinque eiusdem legionis reliquas de media nocte cum omnibus impedimentis adverso flumine magno tumultu proficisci imperat.
He left five cohorts, which he considered least reliable for fighting, as a guard for the camp; the remaining five of the same legion he ordered to set out with all the baggage upstream with great noise after midnight.
§7.60.4Conquirit etiam lintres: has magno sonitu remorum incitatas in eandem partem mittit.
He also searched for small boats; these, driven on with a great sound of oars, he sent in the same direction.
Ipse post paulo silentio egressus cum tribus legionibus eum locum petit quo naves appelli iusserat.
He himself, having gone out silently a little later with three legions, made for the place where he had ordered the ships to be brought to shore.