nam contra tantas difficultates consilio satis providere non poterat, quippe etiam frumenti inopia temptabatur, quia Numidiae pabulo pecoris magis quam arvo student et quodcumque natum fuerat iussu regis in loca munita contulerant, ager autem aridus et frugum vacuos ea tempestate, nam aestatis extremum erat'tamen pro rei copia satis providenter exornat: pecus omne quod superioribus diebus praedae fuerat equitibus auxiliariis agundum adtribuit, A. Manlium legatum cum cohortibus expeditis ad oppidum Laris, ubi stipendium et conmeatum locaverat, ire iubet dicitque se praedabundum post paucos dies eodem venturum
for against such great difficulties he could not make sufficient provision by mere planning, seeing that he was being put to the test even by a scarcity of grain because the Numidians give more attention to fodder for their flocks than to plowed fields (and such grain as had been produced had been transported by the kings command to fortified places); moreover, the fields were dry and stripped of their crops at that season, for it was the end of summer'nevertheless, in keeping with the resources to hand, Marius made his preparations with sufficient precaution. He assigned all the cattle that had become booty on previous days to the auxiliary cavalry to drive; he ordered his lieutenant commander Aulus Manlius to go with light-armed cohorts to the town of Laris, where he had placed cash to pay the soldiers and supplies, and he said that in the course of his pillaging he would come to the same place a few days later.
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