de bello gallico, 5.28

Arpineius and Iunius bring back to the legates that which they heard. Those men, disturbed by the sudden matter, although these things were said by an enemy, nevertheless were thinking that they were not to be neglected; they were most thoroughly moved by this matter because it was scarcely to be believed that the lowly and humble state of the Eburones had dared to make war on the Roman people on their own accord. And so they deliver the matter to council and a big controversy arises among them. Lucius Aurunculeius and very many tribunes of the soldiers and centurions of the first orders were thinking that nothing was to be done rashly and it was not to be left from the winter quarters without the order of Caesar; they were pointing out also how great a number of troops of the Germans could be withstood with the winter quarters having been fortified: and this fact was for proof, that most bravely they sustained the first attack of the enemy, with many wounds having been inflicted besides; they were not hard pressed concerning the grain supply; meanwhile aid would come both from the nearest winter camps and from Caesar; finally what was more capricious or shameful than to form a plan about the highest matters with an enemy as an authority?