Ariovistus, with fifteen thousand warriors at his back, was not slow in responding to the appeal.

The AEdaans were beaten; and Ariovistus settled amongst the Gauls who had been thoughtless enough to appeal to him.

Numerous bands of Suevians came and rejoined him; and in two or three years after his victory he had about him, it was said, one hundred and twenty thousand warriors.

He had appropriated to them a third of the territory of his Gallic allies, and he imperiously demanded another third to satisfy other twenty-five thousand of his old German comrades, who asked to share his booty and his new country.

One of the foremost AEduans, Divitiacus by name, went and invoked the succor of the Roman people, the patrons of his confederation.