de bello gallico, 4.34

With our men having been upset by which things because of the newness of the battle at the most opportune moment Caesar brought help: and indeed at his arrival the enemy stopped, our men recover themselves from fear. With which thing having happened, having thought that the time was unfavorable for provoking and joining battle, he kept himself in his own location and, with a brief time having elapsed, he lead his legions back into camp. While these things were being done, with all our men having been occupied, the rest who were in the fields left. For several continuous days storms followed which both kept our men in camp and kept the enemy from the fight. Meanwhile the barbarians sent out messengers in all directions and they boasted the paucity of our soldiers to their own men and they showed how much of making booty and the means of their liberation into perpetuity would be given if they had expelled the Romans from there camp. By these things quickly, with a great multitude of infantry and of cavalry having been gathered, they came to camp.