§7.87.1Mittit primo Brutum adulescentem cum cohortibus Caesar, post cum aliis Gaium Fabium legatum; postremo ipse, cum vehementius pugnaretur, integros subsidio adducit.
Caesar sends first the young Brutus with some cohorts, afterwards the lieutenant Gaius Fabius with others; lastly, as the fight was raging more fiercely, he himself brings up fresh troops to their relief.
§7.87.2Restituto proelio ac repulsis hostibus eo quo Labienum miserat contendit; cohortes quattuor ex proximo castello deducit, equitum partem sequi, partem circumire exteriores munitiones et ab tergo hostes adoriri iubet.
Having restored the battle and repulsed the enemy, he hastens to that place whither he had sent Labienus; he draws out four cohorts from the nearest fort, and orders one part of the cavalry to follow him, and another part to go around the exterior fortifications and attack the enemy from behind.
§7.87.3Labienus, postquam neque aggeres neque fossae vim hostium sustinere poterant, coactis una XL cohortibus, quas ex proximis praesidiis deductas fors obtulit, Caesarem per nuntios facit certiorem quid faciendum existimet.
Labienus, when neither the ramparts nor the ditches could sustain the violent onset of the enemy, having collected together forty cohorts, which, drawn from the nearest garrisons, fortune had presented to him, informs Caesar by messengers what he thinks necessary to be done.
Accelerat Caesar, ut proelio intersit.
Caesar hastens to be present at the battle.