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Placentia (Italy) (search for this): book 2, chapter 24
Meanwhile, brilliant successes were gained under the command of
Celsus and Paullinus. Cæcina was greatly annoyed by the fruitlessness
of all his undertakings, and by the waning reputation of his army. He had
been repulsed from Placentia; his auxiliaries had
been recently cut up, and even when the skirmishers had met in a series of
actions, frequent indeed, but not worth relating, he had been worsted; and
now that Valens was coming up, fearful that all the distinctions of the
campaign would centre in that general, he made a hasty attempt to retrieve
his credit, but with more impetuosity than prudence. Twelve miles from Cremona (at a place called the Castors) he posted some
of the bravest of his auxiliaries, concealed in the woods that there
overhang the road. The cavalry were ordered to move forward, and, after
provoking a battle, voluntarily to retreat, and draw on the enemy in hasty
pursuit, till the ambuscade could make a simultaneous attack. The scheme was
betrayed to
Cremona (Italy) (search for this): book 2, chapter 24