28.
About the same time Caesar, although the summer was
nearly past, yet, since, all Gaul being reduced, the
Morini and the Menapii alone remained in arms, and
had never sent embassadors to him [to make a treaty] of peace, speedily led his
army thither, thinking that that war might soon be terminated. They resolved to
conduct the war on a very different method from the rest of the Gauls; for as they perceived that the greatest nations
[of Gaul] who had engaged in war, had been routed and overcome, and
as they possessed continuous ranges of forests and morasses, they removed
themselves and all their property thither. When Caesar
had arrived at the opening of these forests, and had began to fortify his camp,
and no enemy was in the mean time seen, while our men were dispersed on their
respective duties, they suddenly rushed out from all parts of the forest, and
made an attack on our men. The latter quickly took up arms and drove them back
again to their forests; and having killed a great many, lost a few of their own
men while pursuing them too far through those intricate places.
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