§8.4.1Caesar militibus pro tanto labore ac patientia, qui brumalibus diebus itineribus difficillimis, frigoribus intolerandis studiosissime permanserant in labore, ducenos sestertios, centurionibus tot milia nummum praedae nomine condonanda pollicetur legionibusque in hiberna remissis ipse se recipit die XXXX Bibracte.
Caesar, to reward the soldiers for such great labor and patience, who in the winter days, on the most difficult marches, and in intolerable cold had remained most zealously in their duty, promised two hundred sesterces to each soldier, and to each of the centurions as many thousands of sesterces under the name of booty; and having sent the legions back to winter quarters, he himself returned on the fortieth day to Bibracte.
§8.4.2Ibi cum ius diceret, Bituriges ad eum legatos mittunt auxilium petitum contra Carnutes, quos intulisse bellum sibi querebantur.
While he was administering justice there, the Bituriges sent legates to him to ask for help against the Carnutes, whom they complained had made war upon them.
§8.4.3Qua re cognita, cum dies non amplius decem et octo in hibernis esset moratus, legiones XIIII et VI ex hibernis ab Arare educit, quas ibi collocatas explicandae rei frumentariae causa superiore commentario demonstratum est: ita cum duabus legionibus ad persequendos Carnutes proficiscitur.
On learning this, although he had delayed no more than eighteen days in winter quarters, he led the fourteenth and sixth legions out of their winter quarters on the Arar, which, as has been shown in the previous commentary, had been stationed there for the purpose of securing the grain supply; thus, with two legions, he set out to pursue the Carnutes.