Et quoniam a loco, unde Romana promota sunt signa, ad usque vallum barbaricum quarta leuga signabatur et decima, id est unum et viginti milia passuum, utilitati securitatique recte consulens Caesar, revocatis procursatoribus iam antegressis, indictaque solitis vocibus quiete, cuneatim circumsistentes alloquitur, genuina placiditate sermonis:.
And since from the place where the Roman standards had begun advancing, the distance to the enemys camp was figured to be fourteen leagues'that is, twenty-one miles'Caesar had proper regard for both advantage and security, and having recalled his outposts, who had already gone ahead, and having proclaimed silence by the usual announcements, with his native calmness of speech he addressed the soldiers, who stood about him in companies, as follows:
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