Cæsar had now no apparent enemy; he had leisure to repose his men, after their military toil. He was in the territory of a friend and ally of the Roman state, whom he had highly obliged in restoring him to his paternal kingdom: nor was it his purpose to abide here for any time: he therefore did not fortify his whole camp with a broad ditch and _vallum_ for security; but the army was disposed in its ordinary form and manner: it might be bounded by a slight ditch and bank, as that of the whole length of the camp on the west side, (the foot-path from the bowling-green accompanying; or it might be staked out with pallisado’s called _valli_) which returns again on part of the north side, at the _porta decumana_, till it meets the ditch that passes on the west of Cæsar’s _prætorium_, and so continued downward, to the houses at the Brill. This last-mentioned ditch runs on the line that separated the column of the horse from the _Triarii_, on the west side of the camp; the foot-way from the Brill accompanying it all the way. The _porta decumana_ is left open in the back of the camp. The same of the _porta prætoria_; but the bounds of the camp here at the south-west corner are visible in two parallel banks remaining; the upper surface of the earth between them, has been dug away for making bricks. The oddness of the present division of the north-west pasture, inclosed by that of the _postica castrorum_, preserves evident tokens of the camp: the elbow to the west, concurring with a ditch on the eastern border of the whole camp, preserves the track of the _via sagularis_; here the baggage and carriages were placed: it extended itself behind the _prætorium_. Pancras church stands upon this way. The north-west field before specified is bounded by a ditch, which marks out the street, that runs along the front of the _prætorium_; along which were set the tents of the officers, the _præfecti_ of the horse, and tribunes of the foot; along with the ensigns and standards of the horse and foot, which were pitched in a line in the ground. On the west side of the _prætorium_, in this pasture, was the open place, a square _area_, comprehended between the _via principalis_, or _principia_, and the _via sagularis_, called the _questorium_: this was the quarters of the quæstor, M. Crassus; a promising young man, who afterwards fell with his father, the triumvir, in Parthia. Pompey married his widow. Hither the soldiers repaired to receive their allowance of pay and provision: on the west side of it was the quæstor’s tent, the military chest, the stores: just beyond, northward was the station of Comius of Arras, auxiliary to Cæsar, with the Gaulish troops under his command; likewise the tents of the Gaulish princes, which Cæsar brought over with him to prevent their revolting in his absence; among whom was the son of Indutiomarus prince of the _Treviri_.