21.
The Trinobantes being protected and secured from any violence of the
soldiers, the Cenimagni, the Segontiaci, the
Ancalites, the Bibroci, and the
Cassi, sending embassies, surrendered themselves to Caesar. From them he learns that the capital town of
Cassivellaunus was not far from that place, and was defended by
woods and morasses, and a very large number of men and of cattle had been
collected in it. (Now the Britons, when they have fortified the
intricate woods, in which they are wont to assemble for the purpose of avoiding
the incursion of an enemy, with an intrenchment and a rampart, call them a
town.) Thither he proceeds with his legions: he finds the place
admirably fortified by nature and art; he, however, undertakes to attack it in
two directions. The enemy, having remained only a short time, did not sustain
the attack of our soldiers, and hurried away on the other side of the town. A
great amount of cattle was found there, and many of the enemy were taken and
slain in their flight.
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