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In opposition to these things Titurius kept shouting, when it would become too late, greater bands of forces of the enemy, after having been joined to the Germans, when some disaster having had occurred in a neighboring camp, they should have assembled. The opportunity was short for deliberating. He believed Caesar had set out for Italy: for neither have the Carnutes have taken the measure of killing Tasgetius, nor have the Eburones, if he had been present , they would have come to the camp with such great disdain of us. He did not regard the enemy as an authority: the Rhine was close by, the death of Ariovistus and our previous victories were the Germans, for the purpose of producing great grief; Gaul was burned, after having received great

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