53.
In the mean while the report respecting the victory of Caesar is conveyed to Labienus through the
country of the Remi with incredible speed, so that,
though he was about sixty miles distant from the winter-quarter of Cicero, and Caesar had arrived
there after the ninth hour, before midnight a shout arose at the gates of the
camp, by which shout an indication of the victory and a congratulation on the
part of the Remi were given to Labienus. This report having been carried to the Treviri , Indutiomarus, who had resolved to attack the
camp of Labienus the following day, flies by night and
leads back all his forces into the country of the Treviri . Caesar sends back Fabius with his legion to his winter-quarters; he himself
determines to winter with three legions near Samarobriva in three
different quarters, and, because such great commotions had arisen in Gaul, he resolved to remain during the whole winter with the army
himself. For the disaster respecting the death of Sabinus having been circulated among them, almost all the states of
Gaul were deliberating about war, sending messengers and embassies
into all quarters, inquiring what further measure they should take, and holding
councils by night in secluded places. Nor did any period of the whole winter
pass over without fresh anxiety to Caesar, or, without
his receiving some intelligence respecting the meetings and commotions of the
Gauls. Among these, he is informed by L. Roscius, the lieutenant whom he had placed over the
thirteenth legion, that large forces of those states of the Gauls, which are called the Armoricae, had assembled
for the purpose of attacking him and were not more than eight miles distant; but
intelligence respecting the victory of Caesar being
carried [to them], had retreated in such a manner that their departure appeared
like a flight.
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