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Don't worry; it just looks like he's wandering off to describe rivers again, but then it gets kinda interesting.
1.12.1 The Arar is a river that flows through the territories of the Haedui and Sequani into the Rhodane; it's so incredibly slow that it can't be determined by sight which direction it's flowing. The Helvetii were crossing it with rafts and canoes fastened together.
1.12.2 When Caesar was informed by scouts that the Helvetii had already sent three parts of their troops across that river, but the fourth part was still left on the other side of the the Arar river, at the third watch, advancing from the camp with three legions, he reached that part of the army which had not yet crossed the river.
1.12.3 With those men entangled and unexpecting, attacking he fell upon a large part of them; the remainder fled, and hid in the nearby forests.
1.12.4 This clan was called the Tigurinus; for the whole Helvetian nation is divided into four clans.
1.12.5 This clan alone, when it left home (which happened within the memory of our fathers) had killed the consul L. Cassius and conquered his army.
1.12.6 Thus, whether for this reason or by the plan of the immortal gods, the part of the Helvetian nation which brought an extraordinary calamity to the Roman people was also the first part to pay the penalty.
1.12.7 In this matter Caesar avenged not only public but also private wrongs, because the Tigurini had killed the grandfather of his father-in-law, legate L. Piso, in the same battle that they killed Cassius.
1.12.1 The Arar is a river that flows through the territories of the Haedui and Sequani into the Rhodane; it's so incredibly slow that it can't be determined by sight which direction it's flowing. The Helvetii were crossing it with rafts and canoes fastened together.
1.12.2 When Caesar was informed by scouts that the Helvetii had already sent three parts of their troops across that river, but the fourth part was still left on the other side of the the Arar river, at the third watch, advancing from the camp with three legions, he reached that part of the army which had not yet crossed the river.
1.12.3 With those men entangled and unexpecting, attacking he fell upon a large part of them; the remainder fled, and hid in the nearby forests.
1.12.4 This clan was called the Tigurinus; for the whole Helvetian nation is divided into four clans.
1.12.5 This clan alone, when it left home (which happened within the memory of our fathers) had killed the consul L. Cassius and conquered his army.
1.12.6 Thus, whether for this reason or by the plan of the immortal gods, the part of the Helvetian nation which brought an extraordinary calamity to the Roman people was also the first part to pay the penalty.
1.12.7 In this matter Caesar avenged not only public but also private wrongs, because the Tigurini had killed the grandfather of his father-in-law, legate L. Piso, in the same battle that they killed Cassius.
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