§8.47.1Ibi cognoscit Commium Atrebatem proelio cum equitatu suo contendisse. §8.47.2Nam cum Antonius in hiberna venisset, civitasque Atrebatum in officio esset, Commius, qui post illam vulnerationem, quam supra commemoravi, semper ad omnes motus paratus suis civibus esse consuesset, ne consilia belli quaerentibus auctor armorum duxque deesset, §8.47.3parente Romanis civitate cum suis equitibus latrociniis se suosque alebat infestisque itineribus commeatus complures, qui comportabantur in hiberna Romanorum, intercipiebat.
There he learned that Commius the Atrebatian had engaged in battle with his cavalry. For when Antonius had come into winter quarters, and the state of the Atrebatian was remaining in its allegiance, Commius—who, after that wound which I have mentioned above, had always been accustomed to be ready for his fellow-citizens for all commotions, so that a leader and adviser of arms might not be wanting to those who were seeking plans of war— while his state was obeying the Romans, supported himself and his men by robberies with his cavalry, and, by rendering the roads dangerous, intercepted several convoys of provisions that were being carried into the winter quarters of the Romans.