§8.24.1Bellicosissimis gentibus devictis Caesar, cum videret nullam iam esse civitatem quae bellum pararet quo sibi resisteret, sed nonnullos ex oppidis demigrare, ex agris diffugere ad praesens imperium evitandum, plures in partes exercitum dimittere constituit.
With the most warlike nations subdued, Caesar, seeing that there was now no state preparing war to resist him, but that some were departing from the towns and fleeing from the fields to avoid the present rule, resolved to distribute the army into more districts.
§8.24.2M. Antonium quaestorem cum legione duodecima sibi coniungit.
He joins Marcus Antonius the quaestor to himself with the twelfth legion.
C. Fabium legatum cum cohortibus XXV mittit in diversissimam partem Galliae, quod ibi quasdam civitates in armis esse audiebat neque C. Caninium Rebilum legatum, qui in illis regionibus erat, satis firmas duas legiones habere existimabat.
He sends Gaius Fabius the lieutenant with twenty-five cohorts into the most distant part of Gaul, because he heard that certain states there were in arms, and he did not think that Gaius Caninius Rebilus the lieutenant, who was in those regions, had two sufficiently strong legions.
§8.24.3Titum Labienum ad se evocat; legionem autem XV, quae cum eo fuerat in hibernis, in togatam Galliam mittit ad colonias civium Romanorum tuendas, ne quod simile incommodum accideret decursione barbarorum ac superiore aestate Tergestinis acciderat, qui repentino latrocinio atque impetu illorum erant oppressi.
He summons Titus Labienus to himself; but the fifteenth legion, which had been with him in winter quarters, he sends into Togate Gaul to protect the colonies of Roman citizens, lest any similar misfortune should happen from an incursion of the barbarians as had happened to the people of Tergeste the previous summer, who had been overwhelmed by their sudden raid and attack.
§8.24.4Ipse ad vastandos depopulandosque fines Ambiorigis proficiscitur; quem perterritum ac fugientem cum redigi posse in suam potestatem desperasset, proximum suae dignitatis esse ducebat, adeo fines eius vastare civibus, aedificiis, pecore, ut odio suorum Ambiorix, si quos fortuna reliquos fecisset, nullum reditum propter tantas calamitates haberet in civitatem.
He himself sets out to devastate and depopulate the territory of Ambiorix; and since he despaired of being able to reduce him, terrified and fleeing, under his power, he judged that the thing closest to his dignity was to so thoroughly strip his lands of citizens, buildings, and cattle, that Ambiorix, because of the hatred of his people, if fortune had left any remaining, should have no return into his state on account of such great calamities.