Cicero or
Labienus. When they had left their camp, the Gauls fell upon them in a
convenient spot and massacred most of them.]
[Footnote 501: Quintus Cicero was encamped in the country of the
Nervii in Hainault. The attack on his camp is described by Caesar
(_Gallic War_, v. 39, &c.) Caesar says, when he is speaking of his own
camp (v. 50), 'Jubet ... ex omnibus partibus castra altiore vallo
muniri portasque obstrui, &c.... cum simulatione terroris;' of which
Plutarch has given the meaning.]
[Footnote 502: Kaltwasser remarks that Plutarch passes over the events
in Caesar's Sixth Book of the Gallic War, as containing matters of less
importance for his purpose.]
[Footnote 503: Caesar (vii. 4) calls him Vercingetorix. He was of the
nation of the Arverni, whom Plutarch (as his text stands) calls
Arvenni in c. 25, and Aruveni in c. 26. The Arverni were on the Upper
Loire in Auvergne. The Carnunteni, whom Caesar calls Carnutes, were
partly in the middle basin of the same river. Orleans (Genapum) and
Chartres (Autricum) were their headquarters.]
[Footnote 504: [Greek: tais autais hodois] in the MSS., which gives no
sense. I have adopted Reiske's alteration [Greek: autais tais hodois]
. Caesar (vii. 8) describes his march over the Cevenna, the Cevennes,
in winter. He had to cut his road through snow six feet deep. The
enemy, who considered the Cevennes as good a protection as a wall,
were surprised by his sudden appearance.
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