117) to transfer the field of battle to the upper Saar rests on a misunderstanding.

The corn expected from the Sequani, Leuci, Lingones was not to come to the Roman army in the course of their march against Ariovistus, but to be delivered at Besancon before their departure, and taken by the troops along with them; as is clearly apparent from the fact that Caesar, while pointing his troops to those supplies, comforts them at the same time with the hope of corn to be brought in on the route.

From Besancon Caesar commanded the region of Langres and Epinal, and, as may be well conceived, preferred to levy his requisitions there rather than in the exhausted districts from which he came.
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This seems the simplest hypothesis regarding the origin of these Germanic settlements.

That Ariovistus settled those peoples on the middle Rhine is probable, because they fight in his army (Caes.i.