Namque pridie in eo loco castello munito ibique III cohortium praesidio relicto ipse cum reliquis copiis lunatis castris Thapsum operibus circummunivit.
in fact, the day before he had built a fort at this spot and left behind a force of three cohorts to hold it, while he himself with the rest of his forces established a crescent-shaped camp and invested Thapsus with a ring of siege works.
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