55.
But the Triviri and Indutiomarus let no part of the
entire winter pass without sending embassadors across the Rhine
, importuning the states, promising money, and asserting that, as a large
portion of our army had been cut off, a much smaller portion remained. However,
none of the German States could be induced to cross the Rhine
, since "they had twice essayed it," they said, "in the war with
Ariovistus and in the passage of the Tenchtheri
there; that fortune was not to be tempted any more." Indutiomarus
disappointed in this expectation, nevertheless began to raise troops, and
discipline them, and procure horses from the neighboring people, and allure to
him by great rewards the outlaws and convicts throughout Gaul. And such
great influence had he already acquired for himself in Gaul by these
means, that embassies were flocking to him in all directions, and seeking,
publicly and privately, his favor and friendship.
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