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During the remaining days after this, Caesar began to
cut down the forests; and that no attack might be made on the flank of the
soldiers, while unarmed and not foreseeing it, he placed together (opposite to
the enemy) all that timber which was cut down, and piled it up as a rampart on
either flank. When a great space had been, with incredible speed, cleared in a
few days, when the cattle [of the enemy] and the rear of their baggage train
were already seized by our men, and they themselves were seeking for the
thickest parts of the forests, storms of such a kind came on that the work was
necessarily suspended, and, through the continuance of the rains, the soldiers
could not any longer remain in their tents. Therefore, having laid waste all
their country, [and] having burned their villages and houses, Caesar led back his army and stationed them in winter quarters among
the Aulerci and Lexovii, and the other states which
had made war upon him last.
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