The commentaries of C. Julius Cæsar of his warres in Gallia, and the civil warres betwixt him and Pompey / translated into English with many excellent and judicious observations thereupon ; as also The art of our modern training, or, Tactick practise, by Clement Edmonds Esquire, ... ; where unto is adjoyned the eighth commentary of the warres in Gallia, with some short observations upon it ; together with the life of Cæsar, and an account of his medalls ; revised, corrected, and enlarged.

CHAP. VI.

Caesar disposeth his forces into severall parts of Gallia, and himself wasteth the countrey of Am∣biorix.

WHen Caesar had subdued the Nations that were most warlike, perceiving there was now no City that prepared warre, to stand against him, but that many to eschew the present yoke of the Roman Empire, left their towns and fled out of the fields, he determined to send his army abroad into divers quarters. M. A••tonius the Quaestor with the eleventh le∣gion he took to himself. C. Fabius the Legate with twenty five cohorts he sendeth into the far∣thest part of all Gallia, because he heard say that certain States were there in arms, and that he thought C. Caninius Reb••lus the Legate had not a sufficient strength of those two legions that were with him already. T. Labienus he called unto him from the place where he was: and the twelfth legion which wintered under him, he sent into Gallia Togatu, to defend the towns that the Romans had there peopled with their own Citizens, lest any such harm should happen to them by invasion of the barbarous people, as had happened the summer before to the Tergestini, who were surprised and spoiled of their goods by their suddain in∣vasions.

He himself set forward to waste and spoil the borders of Ambi••rix; who flying before him for fear from place to place, when he saw there was no hope to get him into his hands, he thought it was most for his honour, so to de∣spoil his countrey of people, buildings and cattel, that his countreymen might so hate him (if for∣tune reserved any countreymen for him) that for the calamities he had brought upon his countrey, he might never have accesse thither again.

After he had sent abroad his host into all parts of Ambior••x his countrey, and wasted all places with slaughter, bu••ning and rapi••e; ha∣ving slain and taken prisoners a great number of men, he sent Labienus with two legions a∣mong the Tr••viri: whose countrey, by reason of the nearnesse thereof unto Germany▪ being daily inured to the warres, is not much unlike to the Germans in rudenesse and savagenesse of life; neither did they obey the command∣ments of Caesar at any time longer then we had an army in their countrey to compell them.