18But to resume, the first of his Gallic wars was against the Helvetii and Tigurini,30Cf. Caesar, Bell. Gall. i. 2-29. who had set fire to their twelve cities and four hundred villages and were advancing through that part of Gaul which was subject to the Romans, as once the Cimbri and Teutones had done. To these they were thought to be not inferior in courage and of equal numbers, being three hundred thousand in all, of whom one hundred and ninety thousand were fighting men.
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[30] Cf. Caesar, Bell. Gall. i. 2-29.