47.
Having been apprised of the arrival of Crassus by the
scouts at about the third hour, he advances twenty miles that day. He appoints
Crassus over Samarobriva and assigns
him a legion, because he was leaving there the baggage of the army, the hostages
of the states, the public documents, and all the corn, which he had conveyed
thither for passing the winter. Fabius, without
delaying a moment, meets him on the march with his legion, as he had been
commanded. Labienus, having learned the death of Sabinus and the destruction of the cohorts, as all the
forces of the Treviri had come against him, beginning to fear lest, if he made a
departure from his winter-quarters, resembling a flight, he should not be able
to support the attack of the enemy, particularly since he knew them to be elated
by their recent victory, sends back a letter to Caesar,
informing him with what great hazard he would lead out his legion from
winter-quarters; he relates at large the affairs which had taken place among the
Eburones; he informs him that all the infantry and cavalry of
the Treviri had encamped at a distance of only three miles from his own
camp.
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