wild outbreak, had by their hideous howls and discordant clamour filled everything with. dreadful. noise, e， consularIt 11 1，ribunes。a，seCUre咦 no postonN . +' w w * M for their camp, naQCOnstrUCteQno entre}xcnr}a,entsOenlnr} to retire, and had showas muchdisregard of the rls as of the enemy，至ox th formed their order of b良ttle outha obtainedfavoo ausp珑e熟 "`hey extended their line on 。itherwing to prevent their being eVen sO they could not make their front eq ual to the enemy's, w狱Ist by thus thinning their line they‘ weakened the centre so that it could hardly keep in touch. (fin their r妙t was a small eminence which they decided to hold with reserves and this disposition, though it was the beginning of the p anic and flight, proved to tae the only means of safety to the fugitives. For Bennus. the V护 Gaullsh chieftain. ，Iearlng some fear' ruse in the s numbers of the enemy, and thinking that the rising ground was occupied in order that the reserves m attack the flank and rear of the Gauls while their front was attack upon the reserves, from their position, his overwhelming numbers would h iman easy victory on So not only Fortune but tactics also were on the side of the barbarians. In the other army there was nothing to remand one of Romans t the generals or the private soldiers. They were all thev thought about was flight, and so utterly tneir neaas tnat a tar greater number nest to W oil, though the Tiber lay in their way, than by the direct road to Rome, to their wives and children. For a short tune the reserves were Arotected by their Dosition. in the rest of the army. no sooner was the oattle-snout neara on their flank by those nearest to the reserves, and then by those at the other end of the line heard in their rear, than they fled, whole and unhurt, almost before they had seen their untried foe, without any attemptshout. None were sldown from behind Nconfused, struggling rthe whole of the leftarms, there was gre.,swim or were hamperarmour were sucked c落攀 however, reached Veii in safety, yet not only were no troops sent from there to defend the City, but not evdespatched to report the defeat to Rome.right wing, which had been stationed someriver, and nearer to the foot of the hill, maderefuge in the Citadel without even closing thXX IX.