de bello gallico, 5.31

It is gotten up from the meeting; they seize each of them and they beg (them) not to lead the mater into the greatest danger by their argument and stubbornness: the matter is easy, whether they remain or depart, if only they all think and approve one thing; on the other hand they foresee no safety in dissension. This matter is lead to the middle of the night by the argument. Finally Cotta, very upset, gives hands: the opinion of Sabinus wins. It is announced that at first light they will go. The remaining part of the night is consumed in wakefulness, because each soldier is looking around his stuff, what he would be able to carry with him, and what from the gear of his winter quarters he was forced to leave. Everything is thought through, why it is not to remain without danger and how danger is increased by the weariness of the soldiers and the period of wakefulness. At first light thus they depart from camp as to whom it had been persuaded that the plan had been given not by the enemy but by the most amicable man, Ambiorix, with the longest train and the greatest baggage.