§7.86.1His rebus cognitis Caesar Labienum cum cohortibus sex subsidio laborantibus mittit:
Having learned these things, Caesar sends Labienus with six cohorts to the relief of those who were struggling.
§7.86.2imperat, si sustinere non posset, deductis cohortibus eruptione pugnaret; id nisi necessario ne faciat.
He orders him, if he should not be able to sustain the attack, to draw off the cohorts and fight by making a sally; but not to do this unless of necessity.
§7.86.3Ipse adit reliquos, cohortatur ne labori succumbant; omnium superiorum dimicationum fructum in eo die atque hora docet consistere.
He himself goes to the rest and encourages them not to succumb to the labor; he tells them that the fruit of all former battles depends upon that day and hour.
§7.86.4Interiores desperatis campestribus locis propter magnitudinem munitionum loca praerupta ex ascensu temptant: huc ea quae paraverant conferunt.
The besieged, despairing of success in the plains on account of the magnitude of the fortifications, attempt the steep places by climbing; hither they bring the things which they had prepared.
§7.86.5Multitudine telorum ex turribus propugnantes deturbant, aggere et cratibus fossas explent, falcibus vallum ac loricam rescindunt.
With a multitude of weapons they drive down from the towers those who were defending them, fill the ditches with earth and hurdles, and tear down the rampart and breastwork with hooks.