Vercingetorix, on hearing this circumstance, leads back his army into the country of the Bituriges; and after marching from it to Gergovia, a town of the Boii, whom Caesar had settled there after defeating them in the Helvetian war, and had rendered tributary to the Aedui, he determined to attack it. Having left this interval, he drew two trenches fifteen feet broad, and of the same depth; the innermost of them, being in low and level ground, he filled with water conveyed from the river. Domitius, upon observing this, sent messengers well acquainted with the country, encouraged by a promise of being amply rewarded, with despatches to Pompey to Apulia, to beg and entreat him to come to his assistance. Craggy cliffs, in several places, interrupted their march, insomuch that their arms had to be handed to one another, and the soldiers were forced to perform a great part of their march unarmed, and were lifted up the rocks by each other. Caesar, having landed his soldiers, sent back his ships the same night to Brundisium, to transport the rest of his legions and cavalry. Pyrenean mountains, and to robbers, especially when by so doing they would prevent citizens from fighting against citizens. All was disorder, consternation, and flight; insomuch that, when Caesar laid hold of the colours of those who were running away, and desired them to stand, some left their horses behind, and continued to run in the same manner; others through fear even threw away their colours, nor did a single man face about. These legions amounted but to three thousand two hundred men; the rest, disabled by wounds received in various battles, by fatigue and the length of their march, could not follow him. 9 Ambr[)a]c[)i]a, a city of Epirus, _Arta_; Cassius work at home his march thither, C. 24; and in conjunction with Kalenus transports Caesar's troops to Greece, _ibid_. 103; taken by Mithridates P[=e]rg[)a]mus, an ancient and famous city of Mysia, _Pergamo_ Per[)i]nthus, a city of Thrace, about a day's journey west of Constantinople, now in a decaying condition, and called _Heraclea_ P[=e]rs[)i]a, one of the largest, most ancient and celebrated kingdoms of Asia P[=e]tra, an ancient city of Macedonia, uncertain Petreius, one of Pompey's lieutenants, C.
If I'm a bit late it's because I was kept at work at home with my son Enoch; he's got a whitlow that's worrying the life out of him, our Enoch has. She was naive enough to be puzzled because she felt older than her mother and younger than her beautiful girlish complexion, simultaneously!