3.
As he arrived there unexpectedly and sooner than any one anticipated, the Remi, who are the nearest of the Belgae to
[Celtic] Gaul, sent to
him Iccius and Antebrogius, [two of] the principal
persons of the state, as their embassadors: to tell him that they surrendered
themselves and all their possessions to the protection and disposal of the Roman people: and that they had neither combined with
the rest of the Belgae, nor entered into any confederacy against
the Roman people: and were prepared to give hostages,
to obey his commands, to receive him into their towns, and to aid him with corn
and other things; that all the rest of the Belgae were in arms; and
that the Germans, who dwell on this side of the
Rhine
, had joined themselves to them; and that so great was the infatuation of
them all, that they could not restrain even the Suessiones, their
own brethren and kinsmen, who enjoy the same rights, and the, same laws, and who
have one government and one magistracy [in common] with themselves, from uniting
with them.
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