9.
Caesar, having delayed two days in that place, because
he had anticipated that, in the natural course of events, such would be the
conduct of Vercingetorix, leaves the army under pretense of raising
recruits and cavalry: he places Brutus, a young man, in
command of these forces; he gives him instructions that the cavalry should range
as extensively as possible in all directions; that he would exert himself not to
be absent from the camp longer than three days. Having arranged these matters,
he marches to Vienna by as long journeys as he can, when his own soldiers did not
expect him. Finding there a fresh body of cavalry, which he had sent on to that
place several days before, marching incessantly night and day, he advanced
rapidly through the territory of the Aedui into that of the Lingones , in which two legions were wintering, that, if any plan
affecting his own safety should have been organized by the Aedui,
he might defeat it by the rapidity of his movements. When he arrived there, he
sends information to the rest of the legions, and gathers all his army into one
place before intelligence of his arrival could be announced to the
Arverni. Vercingetorix, on hearing this
circumstance, leads back his army into the country of the
Bituriges; and after marching from it to Gergovia , a town of the Boii, whom Caesar had settled there after defeating them in the
Helvetian war, and had rendered tributary to the
Aedui, he determined to attack it.
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