ἱστορίαι Historiai
Liv. 37.43 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
until the cavalry were put to flight and the infantry, who were next to them, were driven with them in headlong flight to their camp. XLIIL The camp was in cha Ae面lius.son of theM.Lepidus who a few vears later was rontitex maximus. When tie saw the tugitives coming t( the camp he met them with the whole of the camp guar ordered them to stop, then, reproving them sharply f o, cowardly and disgraceful flight. he insisted on their returning to the battle anti warnea them that it tney aia not opey nlm they would rush blindly on to their ruin. Finally he gave his own men the order to cut down those who first came up and drive the crowd which followed them, back against the enemy with their swords. The greater fear overcame the less. The danger which threatened them on either hand brought them to a halt, then they went back to the fighting .Aemilius with his camp guardthere were 2000 of them, bra ve soldiers-offered a firm resistante to the king who was in eager pursuit,-and Attalus, who was on the Roman right where the enemy had been put to flight at the first onset. seeing the plight of his men and the tumult 产 l! 1、.. round the camp, came up at the moment with Zoo cavalry.x; When Antiochus found that the men whose backs he had seen just before were now resuming the struggle, and that another mass of soldiery was collecting from the camp and from the field, he turned his horse's head and fled. Th us the Romans were victorious on both wings. Making their way·through the heaps of dead which were 1外ng most thickly in the centre, where the courage of the enemy's finest troops and the weight of their armour alike prevented flight, they went on to plunder the camp. The cavalry of Eumenes led the way, followed by the rest of the mounted troops, in pursuing the enemy over the whole plain and killing the hindmost as they came up to them. Still more havoc was wrought among the fugitives by the chariots and elephants and camels which were mixed up with them;they were not only trampled to death by the animals, but having lost all formation they stumbled like blind men over one another. There was a frightful carnage in the camp, almost more than in the battle. The first fugitives 1 , fled mostly in this direction and the camp guard, trusting to their support. fought all the more determinedly in front of their 1几了 lines. The Romans.who expected to take the grates and the 产J‘V rampart. were held up here for some time, and when at last th 、ey 1, did break through the defence they inflicted in their rage all the heavier slaughter.

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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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