13.
In the mean time daily skirmishes take place continually in view of both camps;
these were fought at the ford and pass of the morass. In one of these contests
the Germans, whom Caesar had
brought over the Rhine , to fight, intermixed
with the horse, having resolutely crossed the marsh, and slain the few who made
resistance, and boldly pursued the rest, so terrified them, that not only those
who were attacked hand to hand, or wounded at a distance, but even those who
were stationed at a greater distance to support them, fled disgracefully; and
being often beaten from the rising grounds, did not stop till they had retired
into their camp, or some, impelled by fear, had fled further. Their danger threw
their whole army into such confusion, that it was difficult to judge whether
they were more insolent after a slight advantage or more dejected by a trifling
calamity.
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