 He states that he tried to annihilate "the race and name of the state of the Eburones", for their "crime" which triggered the revolt, of having killed his lieutenants Quintus Titurius Sabinus and Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta when they had demanded to be quartered amongst the Eburones for winter during a year with bad harvests.Ambiorix fled into the Ardennes, with some horse.Many others escaped towards the forests, morasses, and tidal islands of the coast.