7.58.1Labiēnus prīmō vīneās agere, crātibus atque aggere palūdem explēre atque iter mūnīre cōnābātur.Labienus at first tried to move up sheds, fill in the marsh with hurdles and earth, and build a road. 7.58.2Postquam id difficilius cōnfierī animadvertit, silentiō ē castrīs tertiā vigiliā ēgressus eōdem quō vēnerat itinere Metiosēdum pervēnit.When he saw that this was too difficult to accomplish, he left the camp in silence at the third watch and reached Metiosedum by the same road by which he had come.Note. eōdem quō vēnerat itinere: the relative clause is tucked inside eōdem … itinere, 'by the same road by which he had come'. 7.58.3Id est oppidum Senonum in īnsulā Sēquanae positum, ut paulō ante dē Lutētiā dīximus.This is a town of the Senones placed on an island in the Seine, as we said a little earlier of Lutetia. 7.58.3Dēprēnsīs nāvibus circiter quīnquāgintā celeriterque coniūnctīs atque eō mīlitibus iniectīs et reī novitāte perterritīs oppidānīs, quōrum magna pars erat ad bellum ēvocāta, sine contentiōne oppidō potītur.About fifty boats were seized and quickly fastened together, soldiers were put on board, and the townspeople, a large part of whom had been called out to the war, were terrified by the surprise of it; so he took the town without a struggle.
7.58.5Refectō ponte, quem superiōribus diēbus hostēs resciderant, exercitum trādūcit et secundō flūmine ad Lutētiam iter facere coepit.He repaired the bridge which the enemy had cut down in the previous days, led the army across, and began to march downstream to Lutetia.Note. secundō flūmine: 'with the river following', i.e. downstream; adversō flūmine in 7.60 is 'upstream'. 7.58.6Hostēs rē cognitā ab eīs, quī Metiosēdō fūgerant, Lutētiam incendī pontēsque eius oppidī rescindī iubent;The enemy, learning of this from those who had fled from Metiosedum, ordered Lutetia to be burned and the bridges of that town to be cut down; 7.58.6ipsī profectī ā palūde ad rīpās Sēquanae ē regiōne Lutētiae contrā Labiēnī castra cōnsīdunt.they themselves set out from the marsh and encamped on the banks of the Seine opposite Lutetia, facing Labienus' camp.