27.
By their arrival, so great a change of matters was made, that our men, even those
who had fallen down exhausted with wounds, leaned on their shields, and renewed
the fight: then the camp-retainers, though unarmed, seeing the enemy completely
dismayed, attacked [them though] armed; the horsemen too, that they might by
their valor blot the disgrace of their flight, thrust themselves before the
legionary soldiers in all parts of the battle. But the enemy, even in the last
hope of safety, displayed such great courage, that when the foremost of them had
fallen, the next stood upon them prostrate, and fought from their bodies; when
these were overthrown, and their corpses heaped up together, those who survived
cast their weapons against our men [thence], as from a mound, and returned our
darts which had fallen short between [the armies]; so that it ought not to be
concluded, that men of such great courage had injudiciously dared to pass a very
broad river, ascend very high banks, and come up to a very disadvantageous
place; since their greatness of spirit had rendered these actions easy, although
in themselves very difficult.
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