But when
Caesar discovered this, he commanded those through whose territory they had gone, to seek them out and to bring them back again, if they meant to be acquitted before him; and considered them, when brought back, in the light of enemies; he admitted all the rest to a surrender, upon their delivering up the hostages, arms, and deserters. He ordered the
Helvetii, the
Tulingi, and the
Latobrigi, to return to their territories from which they had come, and as there was at home nothing whereby they might support their hunger, all the productions of the earth having been destroyed, he commanded the
Allobroges to let them have a plentiful supply of corn; and ordered them to rebuild the towns and villages which they had burned. This he did, chiefly, on this account, because he was unwilling that the country, from which the
Helvetii had departed, should be untenanted, lest the
Germans, who dwell on the other side of the
, should, on account of the excellence of the lands, cross over from their own territories into those of the
Helvetii, and become borderers upon the province of
Gaul and the
Allobroges. He granted the petition of the
Aedui, that they might settle the
Boii, in their own (i. e. in the
Aeduan) territories, as these were known to be of distinguished valor, to whom they gave lands, and whom they afterward admitted to the same state of rights and freedom as themselves.
