81 ([return])
[ Caesar tells us himself that he employed C. Volusenus to reconnoitre the coast of Britain, sending him forward in a long ship, with orders to return and make his report before the expedition sailed.]
82 ([return])
[ Religione; that is, the omens being unfavourable.]
83 ([return])
[ The standard of the Roman legions was an eagle fixed on the head of a spear. It was silver, small in size, with expanded wings, and clutching a golden thunderbolt in its claw.]
84 ([return])
[ To save them from the torture of a lingering death.]
85 ([return])
[ Now Lerida, in Catalonia.]