7.
These things being achieved, while Caesar had every
reason to suppose that Gaul was reduced to a state of
tranquillity, the Belgae being overcome, the Germans expelled, the Seduni among the Alps
defeated, and when he had, therefore, in the beginning of winter, set
out for Illyricum , as he wished
to visit those nations, and acquire a knowledge of their countries, a sudden war
sprang up in Gaul. The occasion of that war
was this: P. Crassus, a young man, had taken up his
winter quarters with the seventh legion among the Andes, who border upon the
[Atlantic] ocean. He, as there was a scarcity of corn in those
parts, sent out some officers of cavalry, and several military tribunes among
the neighbouring states, for the purpose of procuring corn and provision; in
which number T. Terrasidius was sent among the
Esubii; M. Trebius Gallus among the
Curiosolitae; Q. Velanius, T. Silius, amongst the Veneti.
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