Portrait of Boduognat, Chief of the Nervii, and sacrifice to the Goddess Freya - European School 19th C.
"...in another quarter two different legions, the eleventh and the eighth, having routed the Viromandui, with whom they had engaged, were fighting from the higher ground upon the very banks of the river. But, almost the whole camp on the front and on the left side being then exposed, since the twelfth legion was posted in the right wing, and the seventh at no great distance from it, all the Nervii, in a very close body, with Boduognatus, who held the chief command, as their leader, hastened toward that place; and part of them began to surround the legions on their unprotected flank, part to make for the highest point of the encampment."
-Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Gallic War: Book 2, Chapter 23
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