Caesarī cum id nūntiātum esset, eōs per prōvinciam nostram iter facere cōnārī, mātūrat ab urbe proficīscī et quam maximīs potest itineribus in Galliam ulteriōrem contendit et ad Genavam pervenit. Prōvinciae tōtī quam maximum potest mīlitum numerum imperat (erat omnīnō in Galliā ulteriōre legiō ūna), pontem, quī erat ad Genavam, iubet rescindī. Ubi dē eius adventū Helvētiī certiōrēs factī sunt, legātōs ad eum mittunt nobilīssimōs civitātis, cuius legātiōnis Nammeius et Verucloetius principem locum obtinēbant, quī dīcerent sibi esse in animō sine ūllō maleficiō iter per prōvinciam facere, proptereā quod aliud iter habērent nūllum: rogāre ut eius voluntāte id sibi facere liceat. Caesar, quod memoriā tenēbat L. Cassium consulem occīsum exercitumque eius ab Helvētiīs pulsum et sub iugum missum, cōncēdendum nōn putābat; neque hōminēs inimīcō animō, datā facultāte per provinciam itineris faciendī, temperātūrōs ab iniūriā et maleficiō existimābat. Tamen, ut spatium intercēdere posset dum mīlitēs quōs imperāverat convenīrent, lēgātīs respondit diem se ad dēlīberandum sūmptūrum: sī quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.

When this had been reported to Caesar, namely that they attempted to make a journey through our province, he hastens to set out for the city and in as rapid marches as possible he hastens into further Gaul and arrives to Geneva. From the entire province he orders as great a number as possible of soldiers (there was only one legion in further Gaul), the bridge, which was near Geneva, he orders to be destroyed. When the Helvetians were informed about his arrival, as ambassadors they send to him the most noble men of the state, of which embassy Nammeius and Verucloetius held the principle spot, who would say that they had in mind to make a journey through the province without any wrongdoing, because they had no other route: that they ask that it be allowed for them to for them to do this with his consent. Caesar, because he remembered L. Cassium the consul having been killed and his army having been defeated by the Helvetians and having been sent under the yoke, thought that it must not be yielded; nor did he think that people with a hostile mind, given the opportunity of making a journey through the province, would refrain from injustice and wrongdoing. Therefore, so that an interval could intervene while the soldiers which he had levied gathered, he responded to the envoys that he would spend some time for deliberating: if they should want anything, they should return around the Ides of April.