100. When Caesar saw it, he laughed (Plutarch. in Caesar
[The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans]);yet he relates
his unsuccessful siege of Gergovia with less frankness than
we might expect from a great man to whom victory was
familiar. He acknowledges, however, that in one attack he
lost forty-six centurions and seven hundred men (de Bell.
Gallico, l. vi. [vii.] c. 44-53, in tom. i. p. 270 272).