De Bello Gallico 7.65

7.65.1Ad hōs omnēs cāsūs prōvīsa erant praesidia cohortium duārum et vīgintī, quae ex ipsā prōvinciā ab Lūciō Caesare lēgātō ad omnēs partēs oppōnēbantur.

To meet all these dangers, garrisons of twenty-two cohorts had been provided, which were raised from the Province itself and set against the enemy on every side by Lucius Caesar the legate.

Note. cohortium duārum et vīgintī: 'twenty-two cohorts'; Caesar sometimes puts the smaller number first.

7.65.2Helviī suā sponte cum fīnitimīs proeliō congressī pelluntur et Gāiō Valeriō Donnotaurō, Caburī fīliō, prīncipe cīvitātis, complūribusque aliīs interfectīs intrā oppida ac mūrōs compelluntur.

The Helvii, meeting their neighbours in battle on their own initiative, were driven back, and after Gaius Valerius Donnotaurus, son of Caburus, a leading man of their state, and several others had been killed, they were forced back within their towns and walls.

7.65.3Allobrogēs crēbrīs ad Rhodanum dispositīs praesidiīs magnā cum cūrā et dīligentiā suōs fīnēs tuentur.

The Allobroges, posting frequent guards along the Rhône, defended their territory with great care and diligence.

7.65.4Caesar, quod hostēs equitātū superiōrēs esse intellegēbat et interclūsīs omnibus itineribus nūllā rē ex prōvinciā atque Ītaliā sublevārī poterat, trāns Rhēnum in Germāniam mittit ad eās cīvitātēs quās superiōribus annīs pācāverat, equitēsque ab hīs arcessit et levis armātūrae peditēs, quī inter eōs proeliārī cōnsuērant.

Caesar, because he understood that the enemy were superior in cavalry, and since with all the roads cut he could get no help from the Province or Italy, sent across the Rhine into Germany to those states which he had subdued in previous years, and fetched from them cavalry and the light-armed infantry who were used to fighting among them.

7.65.5Eōrum adventū, quod minus idōneīs equīs ūtēbantur, ā tribūnīs mīlitum reliquīsque equitibus Rōmānīs atque ēvocātīs equōs sūmit Germānīsque distribuit.

When they arrived, because they were riding horses that were not very suitable, he took horses from the military tribunes and the rest of the Roman knights and the re-enlisted veterans, and distributed them to the Germans.