10.
It is again told Caesar, that the Helvetii intended to march through the country of the
Sequani and the Aedui into the territories of the
Santones, which are not far distant from those boundaries of
the Tolosates, which [viz.
Tolosa
, Toulouse] is a
state in the Province. If this took place, he saw that it would be attended with
great danger to the Province to have warlike men, enemies of the Roman people, bordering upon an open and very fertile
tract of country. For these reasons he appointed Titus Labienus,
his lieutenant, to the command of the fortification which he had made. He
himself proceeds to Italy by forced marches,
and there levies two legions, and leads out from winter-quarters three which
were wintering around
Aquileia
, and with these five legions marches rapidly by the nearest route across
the
Alps
into Further Gaul. Here the
Centrones and the Graioceli and the
Caturiges, having taken possession of the higher parts, attempt
to obstruct the army in their march. After having routed these in several
battles, he arrives in the territories of the Vocontii in the
Further Province on the seventh day from Ocelum,
which is the most remote town of the Hither Province; thence he
leads his army into the country of the Allobroges, and from the
Allobroges to the Segusiani. These people are the
first beyond the Province on the opposite side of the
Rhone
.
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