AdiuvabatetiameorumconsiliumquiremdeferebantquodNerviiantiquitus,cumequitatunihilpossent(nequeenimadhoctempuseireistudent,sedquicquidpossunt,pedestribusvalentcopiis),quofaciliusfinitimorumequitatum,sipraedandicausaadeosvenissent,impedirent,tenerisarboribusincisisatqueinflexiscrebrisqueinlatitudinemramisenatis[et]rubissentibusqueinteriectiseffecerantutinstarmurihaesaepesmunimentumpraeberent,quononmodononintrarisedneperspiciquidemposset.
It added weight also to the advice of those who reported that circumstance, that the Nervii, from early times, because they were weak in cavalry, (for not even at this time do they attend to it, but accomplish by their infantry whatever they can,) in order that they might the more easily obstruct the cavalry of their neighbors if they came upon them for the purpose of plundering, having cut young trees, and bent them, by means of their numerous branches [extending] on to the sides, and the quick-briars and thorns springing up between them, had made these hedges present a fortification like a wall, through which it was not only impossible to enter, but even to penetrate with the eye.
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