30.
After this defeat, when it was ascertained that Drapes, a Senonian
(who in the beginning of the revolt of Gaul had collected from all
quarters men of desperate fortunes, invited the slaves to liberty, called in the
exiles of the whole kingdom, given an asylum to robbers, and intercepted the
Roman baggage and provisions), was marching to
the province with five thousand men, being all he could collect after the
defeat, and that Luterius a Cadurcian who, as it has
been observed in a former commentary, had designed to make an attack on the
Province in the first revolt of Gaul, had formed a junction with
him, Caius Caninius went in pursuit of them with two legions, lest
great disgrace might be incurred from the fears or injuries done to the Province
by the depredations of a band of desperate men.
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