Iamque immissi in medium Persarum undique circumfusi egregie tuebantur se; sed conferti et quasi cohaerentes tela vibrare non poterant: simul erant emissa, invicem concurrentia implicabantur levique et vano ictu pauca in hostem, plura in humum innoxia cadebant.
And now, having plunged into the midst of the Persians, although surrounded on all sides, they were defending themselves valiantly; but being crowded together and, as it were, joined man to man, they were not able to poise their weapons, and as soon as these were hurled, they met one another and were entangled, so that a few fell upon the enemy with a light and ineffective stroke, but more dropped harmless to the ground.
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