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1 I, 13 | and was fortifying the town, but that the affections
2 I, 13 | and set out for Auximum, a town into which Attius had brought
3 I, 14 | to be excluded from their town and walls; wherefore he
4 I, 14 | Attius Varus drew out of the town the garrison which he had
5 I, 16 | him even from Cingulum, a town which Labienus had laid
6 I, 16 | marched to Asculum, the chief town of Picenum. Lentulus Spinther
7 I, 16 | Lentulus Spinther occupied that town with ten cohorts; but, on
8 I, 16 | approach, he fled from the town, and, in attempting to bring
9 I, 17 | sent by Domitius from the town, were breaking down a bridge
10 I, 17 | retreated precipitately into the town. Caesar, having marched
11 I, 17 | over, halted before the town and encamped close by the
12 I, 19 | that the people of Sulmo, a town about seven miles distant
13 I, 19 | were in possession of the town with a garrison of seven
14 I, 19 | camp on another part of the town, and gave the command of
15 I, 19 | determined to surround the town with a rampart and turrets
16 I, 20 | necessary for the defense of the town. He held private conferences
17 I, 20 | Domitius had retreated into the town of Corfinium without either
18 I, 20 | blockade and works round the town prevented his escape. ~
19 I, 21 | themselves of that part of the town which they thought the strongest.
20 I, 22 | to become master of the town as soon as possible, and
21 I, 22 | yet, dreading lest the town should be plundered by the
22 I, 22 | and sent them back to the town, and ordered the gates and
23 I, 22 | against sallies from the town, but also to watch that
24 I, 23 | he was escorted out of town; nor did the soldiers of
25 I, 23 | begged leave to return to the town, that the security which
26 I, 28 | force their way into the town at the moment of his departure,
27 I, 31 | accord drove Cotta out of the town; who, terrified because
28 I, 32 | his entering the port or town, and did not suffer his
29 I, 37 | convoy for the siege of the town, should such an event take
30 I, 37 | and vineae to assault the town, and to build twelve ships
31 I, 41 | between his camp and the town, with four legions and all
32 I, 44 | 1.43]Between the town of Ilerda and the next hill,
33 I, 44 | cut off the enemy from the town, the bridge, and all the
34 I, 44 | they had laid up in the town. In expectation of this
35 I, 46 | the mountain on which the town Ilerda was built. And when
36 I, 46 | when hard pressed. From the town, indeed, the precipice inclined
37 I, 46 | from the camp through the town, that fresh men might relieve
38 I, 47 | by their fears into the town, an easy retreat was afforded
39 I, 48 | and driven them into the town. The enemy fortified the
40 I, 62 | bring them to Octogesa, a town situated on the river Ebro,
41 II, 1 | and turrets against the town, on two sides; one of which
42 II, 2 | time before laid up in the town, and so great a number of
43 II, 2 | sallies were made from the town by the Albici, and fire
44 II, 2 | beat them back into the town. ~
45 II, 5 | was easy to see into the town - how all the youth which
46 II, 12 | withheld from forcing into the town and sacking it, in hopes
47 II, 13 | charge not to suffer the town to be taken by storm, lest
48 II, 13 | restrained from breaking into the town, and they were much displeased,
49 II, 14 | rest to retreat into the town without effecting their
50 II, 16 | former examples that their town could be surrounded with
51 II, 18 | temple of Hercules to the town of Gades, and sent six cohorts
52 II, 18 | gave the command of the town of Gades to Caius Gallonius,
53 II, 19 | for the defense of the town. About the same time the
54 II, 19 | themselves drove out of the town the cohorts, and shut the
55 II, 20 | drive Gallonius out of the town, and to secure the city
56 II, 20 | been induced to quit the town. When this was known, one
57 II, 21 | been zealous to keep the town in their own power; to the
58 II, 22 | arms and engines out of the town, as they were ordered: brought
59 II, 22 | dispatched, Caesar, sparing the town more out of regard to their
60 II, 23 | one legion, guarded this town. The rest of Caesar's fleet,
61 II, 24 | of six miles to reach the town. ~
62 II, 25 | camp, joining the wall and town, at the gate called Bellica,
63 II, 25 | situation, on one side by the town itself, on the other by
64 II, 25 | theater which is before the town, the approaches to the town
65 II, 25 | town, the approaches to the town being rendered difficult
66 II, 25 | from the country into the town on the sudden alarm. He
67 II, 25 | into their camp near the town. In the mean time, on the
68 II, 26 | Utica, and encamped near the town. Before the works of the
69 II, 26 | speedy retreat into the town along the shore, Caesar'
70 II, 35 | them ran straightway to the town without halting. But both
71 II, 35 | withdrew from the camp into the town, which Varus perceiving
72 II, 35 | his army quietly into the town. ~
73 II, 36 | draw lines about it. In the town there was a multitude of
74 II, 38 | some deserters from the town that Juba had staid behind
75 II, 44 | their cohorts before the town, claimed them as his booty,
76 II, 44 | rode on horseback into the town, attended by several senators,
77 III, 9 | he resolved to storm the town. But it was well fortified
78 III, 9 | determination, surrounded the town with five encampments, and
79 III, 9 | despairing of capturing the town, after sustaining such considerable
80 III, 11 | who was governor of the town by Pompey's appointment,
81 III, 11 | the gates and defend the town, and ordered the Greeks
82 III, 11 | surrendered himself and the town to Caesar, and was preserved
83 III, 12 | to demand hostages of the town's people. But they refuse
84 III, 12 | him admission into their town. Their example was followed
85 III, 15 | one of whom commanded the town, the other the guards on
86 III, 21 | design of betraying the town discovered: his plots being
87 III, 22 | thrown from the wall of the town which was commanded by Quintus
88 III, 22 | some of the freemen of the town, and was offering money
89 III, 29 | who resided at Lissus, a town which Caesar had before
90 III, 29 | received Antony into their town, and gave him every assistance.
91 III, 29 | safety, escaped out of the town, and went to Pompey. All
92 III, 39 | at Oricum to protect the town, and committed to them the
93 III, 39 | duty and the command of the town; he drew the ships into
94 III, 39 | of the harbor, behind the town, and fastened them to the
95 III, 40 | same time attempting the town on all sides by land, with
96 III, 40 | island over against the town. He carried over land, into
97 III, 40 | from being brought into the town from Biblis and Amantia,
98 III, 79 | join him at Aeginium, a town on the confines of and opposite
99 III, 80 | Gomphi, which is the first town of Thessaly on the road
100 III, 80 | from the country into the town and shut the gates, and
101 III, 80 | depend on the strength of the town, if succor was speedily
102 III, 80 | of a rich and plentiful town: and, at the same time to
103 III, 80 | began his assault on the town at a little after three
104 III, 101| garrison at Messana, the town with difficulty held out,
105 III, 101| have been lost, but the town was maintained till the
106 III, 102| seized to shut him out of the town; and that messengers had
107 III, 102| were not admitted into the town or port; and having received
108 III, 106| had left to garrison the town, and saw a crowd gathering
109 III, 109| hazard a battle without the town. His only resource was to
110 III, 109| resource was to keep within the town in the most convenient places,
111 III, 111| except that part of the town which Caesar occupied with
112 III, 112| it is connected with the town by a narrow way eight hundred
113 III, 112| a village as large as a town; and whatever ships from
114 III, 112| supplies. In other parts of the town, they fought so obstinately,
115 III, 112| In this quarter of the town was a wing of the king's
116 III, 112| in Caesar's part of the town, sent messengers to Achillas,
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117 I, 6 | by a ford. The furthest town of the Allobroges, and the
118 I, 6 | Helvetii, is Geneva. From this town a bridge extends to the
119 I, 10 | which is the most remote town of the Hither Province;
120 I, 23 | largest and best-stored town of the Aedui), he thought
121 I, 38 | Vesontio, which is the largest town of the Sequani, and had
122 I, 38 | happen, for there was in that town a most ample supply of every
123 I, 38 | almost surrounds the whole town, as though it were traced
124 I, 38 | and connects it with the town. Hither Caesar hastens by
125 I, 38 | after having seized the town, stations a garrison there. ~~
126 II, 6 | 6 There was a town of the Remi, by name Bibrax,
127 II, 6 | was then in command of the town, one of the Remi, a man
128 II, 7 | the hope of gaining the town, abandoned the enemy. Therefore,
129 II, 7 | a short time before the town, and laying waste the country
130 II, 10 | regard to their taking the town by storm and also their
131 II, 12 | long march, hastens to the town named Noviodunum. Having
132 II, 12 | the next night into the town. The vineae having been
133 II, 12 | quickly brought up against the town, a mound thrown up, and
134 II, 13 | and all the arms in the town having been delivered up,
135 II, 13 | their possessions into the town Galled Bratuspantium, and
136 II, 13 | miles distant from that town, all the old men, going
137 II, 13 | old men, going out of the town, began to stretch out their
138 II, 13 | when he had come up to the town, and there pitched his camp,
139 II, 15 | and all the arms in the town collected, he went from
140 II, 29 | their possessions into one town, eminently fortified by
141 II, 29 | fortified by nature. While this town had on all sides around
142 II, 30 | frequent sallies from the town, and contended with our
143 II, 30 | kept themselves within the town. When, vineae having been
144 II, 32 | trench that was before the town, so that the heaps of arms
145 II, 32 | about a third part in the town, the gates were opened,
146 II, 33 | soldiers to go out of the town, lest the towns-people should
147 II, 33 | suddenly made a sally from the town with all their forces [in
148 II, 33 | were forced back into the town. The day after, Caesar,
149 II, 33 | the whole spoil of that town. The number of 53,000 persons
150 III, 2 | night from that part of the town which he had given up to
151 III, 12 | height to the walls of the town) had begun to despair of
152 III, 14 | hooks used in attacking town walls. When the ropes which
153 III, 21 | besiege the [principal] town of the Sotiates on his march.
154 III, 22 | was driven back into the town, yet he obtained from Crassus [
155 III, 23 | because they had heard that a town fortified by the nature
156 V, 20 | learns that the capital town of Cassivellaunus was not
157 V, 20 | and a rampart, call them a town.) Thither he proceeds with
158 V, 20 | on the other side of the town. A great amount of cattle
159 VI, 34 | no regular army, nor a town, nor a garrison which could
160 VII, 4 | he is expelled from the town of Gergovia, by his uncle
161 VII, 9 | marching from it to Gergovia, a town of the Boii, whom Caesar
162 VII, 11 | came to Vellaunodunum, a town of the Senones, he determined
163 VII, 11 | embassadors being sent from the town to treat of a capitulation,
164 VII, 11 | possible, to Genabum, a town of the Carnutes, who having
165 VII, 11 | for the defense of that town. Caesar arrived here in
166 VII, 11 | pitching his camp before the town, being prevented by the
167 VII, 11 | the Loire connected the town of Genabum with the opposite
168 VII, 11 | escape by night from the town, he orders two legions to
169 VII, 11 | obtains possession of the town so completely, that very
170 VII, 11 | He pillages and burns the town, gives the booty to the
171 VII, 12 | embassadors came from this town to beg that he would pardon
172 VII, 12 | soldiers being sent into the town to collect the arms and
173 VII, 12 | When the centurions in the town understood from the signal-making
174 VII, 13 | largest and best fortified town in the territories of the
175 VII, 13 | expected that on taking that town, he would reduce beneath
176 VII, 15 | garrison is selected for the town. ~
177 VII, 17 | camp at that side of the town which was not defended by
178 VII, 19 | necessary for the siege of the town. ~
179 VII, 21 | entire army and sent into the town, and decide that the general
180 VII, 21 | good the defense of the town. ~
181 VII, 25 | Gaul before the gate of the town, who was casting into the
182 VII, 26 | design of fleeing from the town the next day, by the advice
183 VII, 26 | not far distant from the town, and the extensive marsh
184 VII, 28 | most remote parts of the town. A part was then slain by
185 VII, 28 | hundred, who fled from the town when they heard the first
186 VII, 34 | in the direction of the town of Gergovia, along the banks
187 VII, 36 | on the mountain near the town, placed the forces of each
188 VII, 36 | was a hill opposite the town, at the very foot of that
189 VII, 36 | succor could come from the town, he got possession of the
190 VII, 42 | propriety. They entice from the town of Cabillonus, by a promise
191 VII, 44 | to the other side of the town; that they had serious apprehensions
192 VII, 45 | seen at a distance from the town, as Gergovia commanded a
193 VII, 46 | 46 The town wall was 1200 paces distant
194 VII, 46 | as far as the wall of the town, with their camps very close
195 VII, 47 | nigh to the wall of the town and the gates. But then,
196 VII, 47 | tumult, fled hastily from the town, since they thought that
197 VII, 48 | to the other part of the town to defend it, as we have
198 VII, 48 | frequent accounts, that the town was in possession of the
199 VII, 52 | mountain, nor the wall of the town could retard them; in the
200 VII, 55 | 55 Noviodunum was a town of the Aedui, advantageously
201 VII, 55 | into Bibracte, which is a town of the greatest importance
202 VII, 55 | magistrate; they burned the town to prevent its being of
203 VII, 57 | legions to Lutetia (which is a town of the Parisii, situated
204 VII, 58 | which he came. This is a town of the Senones, situated
205 VII, 58 | obtains possession of the town without a contest. Having
206 VII, 58 | order the bridges of that town to be broken down: they
207 VII, 68 | march to Alesia, which is a town of the Mandubii, and ordered
208 VII, 69 | 69 The town itself was situated on the
209 VII, 69 | of the hill. Before the town lay a plain of about three
210 VII, 69 | of height, surrounded the town. The army of the Gauls had
211 VII, 70 | their alarm rush into the town; Vercingetorix orders the
212 VII, 71 | little; he receives into the town all the forces which he
213 VII, 73 | to make a sally from the town by several gates and in
214 VII, 76 | besieged would sally from the town and attack the enemy, and
215 VII, 78 | should depart from the town, and that themselves should
216 VII, 78 | had admitted them into the town, are compelled to go forth
217 VII, 79 | on the higher ground. The town Alesia commanded a view
218 VII, 79 | they encamp before the town, and cover the nearest trench
219 VII, 80 | Alesia returned into the town dejected and almost despairing
220 VII, 81 | who were besieged in the town might learn their arrival,
221 VII, 81 | leads them forth from the town. Our troops, as each man’
222 VII, 82 | Thus they returned to the town without accomplishing their
223 VII, 84 | Alesia, issues forth from the town; he brings forth from the
224 VII, 88 | besieged, beholding from the town the slaughter and flight
225 VIII, 2 | kalends of January, from the town Bibracte, to the thirteenth
226 VIII, 5 | his quarters at Genabum, a town of the Carnutes; and lodged
227 VIII, 26 | Pictones, marched to the town Limonum. When he was approaching
228 VIII, 27 | under apprehension from the town’s people, made a precipitate
229 VIII, 32 | he seized Uxellodunum, a town formerly in vassalage to
230 VIII, 33 | perceived that all parts of the town were secured by very craggy
231 VIII, 33 | moreover, observing that the town’s people were possessed
232 VIII, 33 | drawing lines round the town by degrees, as his forces
233 VIII, 34 | garrison, marched out of the town with the rest. After a few
234 VIII, 34 | his works round the whole town, lest he should be unable
235 VIII, 35 | miles distance from the town, intending from it to convey
236 VIII, 35 | convey the corn into the town by degrees. They chose each
237 VIII, 35 | with provisions into the town. Accordingly, having disposed
238 VIII, 35 | fetch the corn into the town. But their noise being heard
239 VIII, 37 | returned to besiege the town; and, having destroyed the
240 VIII, 39 | and in what conduct the town’s people persisted: and
241 VIII, 40 | and perceiving that the town was surrounded by the works,
242 VIII, 41 | Close under the walls of the town, a copious spring gushed
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