14.
Having marshalled his army in three lines, and in a short time performed a march
of eight miles, he arrived at the camp of the enemy before the Germans could perceive what was going on; who being
suddenly alarmed by all the circumstances, both by the speediness of our arrival
and the absence of their own officers, as time was afforded neither for
concerting measures nor for seizing their arms, are perplexed as to whether it
would be better to lead out their forces against the enemy, or to defend their
camp, or seek their safety by flight. Their consternation being made apparent by
their noise and tumult, our soldiers, excited by the treachery of the preceding
day, rushed into the camp: such of them as could readily get their arms, for a
short time withstood our men, and gave battle among their carts and baggage
wagons; but the rest of the people, [consisting] of boys and women (for they had
left their country and crossed the Rhine with all their
families) began to fly in all directions; in pursuit of whom Caesar sent the cavalry.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.