Veneti

The purchasers reported the number of individuals as fifty-three thousand.

At the same time, Caesar was informed by Publius Crassus, whom he had sent with a single legion to the territories of the Veneti, Veneli, Usismi, Coriosolites, Isuvii, Alerchi, and Redones, maritime tribes whose country reaches the ocean, that all of them had been brought completely under the dominion of the Roman people.

These operations resulted in the pacification of the whole Gaul, and the natives were so impressed by the story of the campaign which reached them, that the peoples who dwelt beyond the Rhine sent envoys to Caesar, promising to give hostages and fulfill his commands.

Being anxious to get to Italy and Illyricum without delay, he ordered the envoys to return to him at the commencement of the following summer.

Accordingly, he had started at the beginning of winter for Illicum, being anxious to visit the tribes there as well as those of Gaul, and to make himself acquainted with their country, when suddenly war broke out in Gaul for the following reason.

The younger Publius Crassus, who was wintering with the seventh legion among the Andes near the ocean, finding that corn was scarce in the district, sent a number of auxiliary officers and tribunes to the neighboring tribes to arrange for a supply.

Amongst others Titus Turicidius was sent to the Suvi, Marcus Trebius Gallus to the Coriosolites, and Quintus Falanus, conjointly with Titus Silius, to the Veneti.

The last-named tribe is by far the most influential of all the maritime peoples in that part of the country.

He moved north the next year, in 57, against the Belgae, whom Caesar himself calls the bravest of all the Gauls in the opening line of his account, and by the end of the season much of the north had submitted.

In 56, he fought the Veneti on the Atlantic coast, a seafaring people whose war was fought primarily from ships.

Each campaign gave him a reason to keep his legions in the field, and each victory handed him a new territory that needed holding.

So the army kept growing along with the war.

The purchasers reported the number of individuals as fifty-three thousand.

At the same time Caesar was informed by Publius Crassus, whom he had sent with a single legion to the territories of the Veneti, Veneli, Usismi, Coriosolites, Isuvii, Alerchi, and Radones, maritime tribes whose country reaches the ocean, that all of them had been brought completely under the dominion of the Roman people.

These operations resulted in the pacification of the whole Gaul, and the natives were so impressed by the story of the campaign which reached them that the peoples who dwelt beyond the Rhine sent envoys to Caesar, promising to give hostages and fulfill his commands.

Being anxious to get to Italy and Illyricum without delay, he ordered the envoys to return to him at the commencement of the following summer.

Accordingly, he had started at the beginning of winter for Illycum, being anxious to visit the tribes there as well as those of Gaul, and to make himself acquainted with their country, when suddenly war broke out in Gaul for the following reason.

The younger Publius Crassus, who was wintering with the seventh legion among the Andes near the ocean, finding that corn was scarce in the district, sent a number of auxiliary officers and tribunes to the neighboring tribes to arrange for a supply.

Amongst others Titus Turicidius was sent to the Suvi, Marcus Trebius Gallus to the Coriosolites, and Quintus Falanus, conjointly with Titus Silius, to the Veneti.

The last-named tribe is by far the most influential of all the maritime peoples in that part of the country.