12.
On the day following, before the enemy could recover from their terror and
flight, Caesar led his army into the territories of the
Suessiones, which are next to the Remi, and having accomplished a long march, hastens to the town
named
Noviodunum
. Having attempted to take it by storm on his march, because he heard
that it was destitute of [sufficient] defenders, he was not able to carry it by
assault, on account of the breadth of the ditch and the height of the wall,
though few were defending it. Therefore, having fortified the camp, he began to
bring up the vineae, and to provide whatever things were necessary for the
storm. In the mean time the whole body of the Suessiones, after
their flight, came the next night into the town. The vineae having been quickly
brought up against the town, a mound thrown up, and towers built, the Gauls, amazed by the greatness of the works, such as
they had neither seen nor heard of before, and struck also by the dispatch of
the Romans, send embassadors to Caesar respecting a surrender, and succeed in consequence of the
Remi requesting that they [the
Suessiones] might be spared.
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