20.
About the same time, P. Crassus, when he had arrived in
Aquitania
(which, as has been before said, both from its extent of territory and the great
number of its people, is to be reckoned a third part of Gaul,)
understanding that he was to wage war in these parts, where a few years before,
L. Valerius Praeconinus, the lieutenant had been
killed, and his army routed, and from which L.
Manilius, the proconsul, had fled with the loss of his baggage, he
perceived that no ordinary care must be used by him. Wherefore,
having provided corn, procured auxiliaries and cavalry, [and] having summoned by
name many valiant men from Tolosa , Carcaso , and Narbo , which are the states of the province of Gaul, that border on these regions [Aquitania
], he led his army into the territories of the Sotiates. On
his arrival being known, the Sotiates having brought together great
forces and [much] cavalry, in which their strength principally lay, and
assailing our army on the march, engaged first in a cavalry action, then when
their cavalry was routed, and our men pursuing, they suddenly display their
infantry forces, which they had placed in ambuscade in a valley. These attacked
our men [while] disordered, and renewed the fight.
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