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231.6.

perfinīs: bearing from near Agedincum (where he had been joined by Labienus, ch. 62) toward the east, and so leaving the hostile Haedui to the south. This movement, checked by the attack of Vercingetorix, explains how the crisis of the campaign came to be the siege and capture of Alesia (see map, Fig. 88).


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