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50. οἱ οὖν Ῥωμαῖοι, ἐπειδὴ μήτε ἐκεῖνοι ἀντεπῄεσάν σφισιν ἢ καὶ ἔφευγον, ἀλλ᾽ ἐν ταὐτῷ μένοντες ὥσπερ ἐν πύργοις εἱστήκεσαν, καὶ αὐτοὶ τά τε δοράτια κατὰ πρώτας εὐθὺς ἅτε μηδεμίαν [2] χρῆσιν ἔχοντα ἀπετέθειντο, καὶ τοῖς ξίφεσιν οὐκ ἐδύναντο οὔτε συστάδην μάχεσθαι οὔτε τῶν κεφαλῶν αὐτῶν, ᾗπερ καὶ μόνον ἁλωτοὶ οἷά που γυμναῖς αὐταῖς μαχόμενοι ἦσαν, ἐφικνεῖσθαι, τάς τε ἀσπίδας ἀπέρριψαν, καὶ προσπίπτοντές σφισιν, οἱ μὲν ἐξ ἐπιδρομῆς οἱ δὲ καὶ ἐγγύθεν, ἐνήλλοντο 1 [3] τρόπον τινὰ καὶ ἔκοπτον αὐτούς. κἀκ τούτου πολλοὶ μὲν εὐθὺς ἅτε καὶ μιᾶς ἐπικοπῆς ὄντες ἔπιπτον, πολλοὶ δὲ καὶ πρὶν πεσεῖν ἀπέθνησκον: ὑπὸ γὰρ τῆς πυκνότητος τῆς συστάσεως καὶ [4] τεθνηκότες ὀρθοὶ ἀνείχοντο. τοῦ μὲν οὖν πεζοῦ τὸ πλεῖστον οὕτω καὶ ἐκεῖ καὶ πρὸς ταῖς ἁμάξαις, ὅσον γε καὶ ἐξωσθὲν ἐς αὐτὰς ἐτύγχανε, σύν τε ταῖς γυναιξὶ καὶ σὺν τοῖς παισὶν αὐτῶν ἐφθάρησαν: ὁ δὲ 2 Ἀριόουιστος μεθ᾽ ἱππέων ... τήν τε χώραν παραχρῆμα ἐξέλιπε, καὶ πρὸς τὸν Ῥῆνον [p. 306] [5] ὁρμήσας 3 ἐπεδιώχθη μέν, οὐ κατελήφθη δέ. ἀλλ᾽ ὁ μὲν ἐπὶ πλοίου προεξέφυγε, τῶν δ᾽ ἄλλων τοὺς μὲν οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι ἐς τὸν ποταμὸν ἐσβαίνοντες 4 ἀπέκτειναν, τοὺς δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ἐκεῖνος ὑπολαβὼν ἀπήνεγκεν.

1 e)nh/llonto Cobet, a)nh/llonto L.

2 o( de\ R. Steph., o( de\ o( L.

3 o(rmh/sas Rk., paraxrh=ma o(rmh/sas L.

4 e)sbai/nontes Bk., e)sbai/nontas L.

Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-. Keyboarding.

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