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LXV. — It is the custom of the people of Africa to deposit their com privately in vaults, under ground, to secure it in time of war, and guard it from the sudden incursions of an enemy. Caesar, having intelligence of this from a spy, drew out two legions, with a party of cavalry, at midnight, and sent them about ten miles off; whence they returned, 1 ):ided with corn to the camp. Labienus, being informed of it, marched about seven miles, through the mountains Caesar had passed the day before, a...nd there encamjwd witli two legions ; where expecting that Cicsar would often come the same way in quest of corn, he daily lay in ambush vWth a great body of horse and light-armed foot Chap. LXVI. — Caesar, being informed of the ambuscade of Labienus by deserters, delayed there a few days, till the enemy, by repeating the practice often, had abated a little of their circumspection. Then suddenly, one morning order- ing eight veteran legions with part of the cavalry to follow him by the Decuman gate, he sent forward the rest of the cavaliT ; who, coming suddenly upon the enemy's light-armed foot, that lay in ambush among the valleys, slew about five hundred, and put the rest to flight.
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