Histories 1.65

1They approached the Treviri, indeed, without anxiety, as allies: at Divodurum (this is a town of the Mediomatrici), although they had been received with every courtesy, a sudden panic seized them, and they snatched up their arms to slaughter the harmless community, not for booty or from lust for plunder, but from fury and madness and for uncertain causes, and so with remedies the more difficult, until, softened by their general's entreaties, they refrained from destroying the community; 1nevertheless about four thousand people were slaughtered. 1And such terror spread through the Gauls that, as the column soon approached, whole communities came out to meet it with their magistrates and with prayers, women and children prostrate along the roads: and all the other means of appeasing an enemy's anger were held out, not indeed in war but to secure peace.