CHAP. X.
Drapes dieth, Luterius brought to Caesar. Labienus good successe against the Treviri. Caesar after his expedition into Aquitania, putteth his army into winter-quarters.
DRapes, whom I declared to have been taken by Caninius, whether it were for vexation and grief that he was in bands, or for fear of more heavy punishment, fasted a few dayes from meat, and so starved.
At the same time Luterius, that escaped by flight from the battel (as I shewed before) fell into the hands of Epasnactus the Arvernian. For in often shifting from place to place, he was fain to venture himself upon the courtesy and civility of many, because he thought he could ne∣ver continue any long time in one place without danger, his heart misgiving him how much he had deserved to have Caesar his enemy. Epasnactus the Arvernian being a faithfull friend to the people of Rome, as soon as he had gotten him into his hands, brought him without further de∣lay bound unto Caesar.
In the mean time Labienus warreth prospe∣rously against the Treviri: and having slain many both of the Treviri and also of the Ger∣mans, who were ready to assist any man against the Romans, got the chief of them alive into his hands; among whom was Surus the Heduan, a man of great valour and noble birth, who a∣lone of the Heduans had unto that day conti∣nued in arms against the people of Rome.
Caesar knowing thereof, and forasmuch as he saw his affairs went well forward in all parts of Gallia, weighing with himself how all Celti∣ca and Belgica were the former Summers con∣quered and subdued, and that he had never all this while visited Aquitania, only he had made a kind of entrance into it by certain victories got∣ten by P. Crassus: he marched thither with two legions, with intent to bestow the later part of the summer there. Which thing (as he had done all others before) he dispatched quickly and luckily. For all the States of Aquitania sent ambassadours unto him, and gave him hostages.
After the accomplishment of these things, he went to Narbone with his guard of horsemen, and sent his foot into their wintering-places by his Legates. Four legions he placed in Belgium under M. Antonius, C. Trebonius, P. Vati∣nius, and Q. Tullius, Legates. Two he quar∣tered amongst the Heduans, whom he knew to be of greatest authority in all Gallia. Two more he placed amongst the Treviri, in the borders of the Carnutes, to be a stay to all the countrey that lay upon the sea-coast. The other two he placed in the borders of the Lemovici, not farre from the Arverni: that so there might not be any part of Gallia without an army.
After he had tarried a few dayes in the Pro∣vince, and there speedily taken cognizance of all their courts, sitting upon publick controver∣sies, and rewarded such as had deserved well, (for he had a great desire to understand how e∣very man had carried himself towards the com∣monweal during the generall rebellion of all Gallia, which he had born out through the faith∣fulnesse & assistance of the said Province) as soon as he had dispatched these things, he returned to his legions into Belgium, and wintered at Neme∣tocenna.