The consul ordered his cavalrv to _ao wherever .一，，-…，-少J. they could to the rescue of their comrades and at the same time led the legions out of the camp and marched in close order against the enemy 201 Some of the cavalry lost their way in the fields owing to the various cries that were raised in different places, others came face to face with the enemy and began at many points simultaneously. It was hottes thenun念:，stationaryboth horse器psfoo咒eposted,5 forey almost fo簇nga to theird a regular army, and as they held the road most of the Romans encounteredthem. The Macedonians, too, had the advantage of the king's presence to encourage them, whilst the Cretan auxiliaries,in close order and prepared for fighting, made sudden onsets and wound4 d many of their opponents, who were dispersed without any order or formation. If they had kept their pursuit within bounds they would not only have come off with flying colours in the actual contest. but thev would have gone lefar to influence the course of the war. As it was，they were carried away by thirst for blood and fell in with the advancing Roman cohorts and their military tribunes;the cavalry, too, as soon as they saw the standards of their comrades, turned their horses against the foe who was now in disorder, and in a moment the fortune of the day was reversed, those who had been the now turned and fled. Many were killed in hand-to-hand many whilst fleeing;they did not all perish by the sword, some were driven into bogs and were sucked down together with their horses in the bottomless mud. Even the king was in danger, for he was flung to earth by his wounded and maddened horse and all but overpowered as he lay. He owed his safety to a trooper who instantly leaped down and put the, king on his own horse, but as he could not keep up on toot with the cavalry m their night he was spearea oy the enemy, who had ridden up to where the king fell. Philip galloped round the swamp and made his way in headlong flight through paths and pathless, places until he reached his camp in safety, where most of the men had given him up for lost. Two hundred Macedonians perished in. that battle, about a hundred prisoners were taken and eighty well-equipped horses were secured together with the spoils of their fallen riders.