De Bello Gallico 1.

.7 When this thing was announced to Caesar, that they were attempting to make a journey through our province, he hurried to depart from Rome and he travelled by day trips as long as he could make them and he marched into more remote Gaellic territory and he came towards the vicinity of Geneva. From the province, he recruited as large a number of troops as he could (the tenth legion was in one of the farthest reaches of Gaul), he commanded the bridge, which was at Geneva, be removed. When the Helvetians were informed about Caesars incursion, they sent the noblest emissaries of the people to him, of whom the emissaries Nammeius and Verucloetius possessed the first position, whose assignment was to explain that they intended to accomplish their journey through the province without any harm, because they would have no other path: to ask that their journey would be permitted by Caesars good will. Caesar, because he was holding the memory that the consul Lucius Cassius Longinus had been killed, and his army routed and cast under the yoke by the Helvetians, and Caesar was thinking that this request must not be granted; and Caesar was reckoning that men of hostile character would not refrain from damage and mischief, if they were given the opportunity they would have made their journey through the province. Nevertheless, so that he (Caesar) would be able to pass the period of time until the soldiers arrived, he responded to the ambassadors in the time that he would take: if they wanted something, they would have to return on the thirteenth of April.