Neque tamen Arminius, quamquam libero incursu, statim prorupit; sed ut haesere caeno fossisque impedimenta, turbati circum milites, incertus signorum ordo, utque tali in tempore sibi quisque properus et lentae adversum imperia aures, inrumpere Germanos iubet, clamitans: En Varus eodemque iterum fato vinctae legiones! Simul haec et cum delectis scindit agmen equisque maxime vulnera ingerit.
Arminius, however, though the way was clear for the attack, did not immediately deliver his onslaught. But when he saw the baggage-train caught in the mire and trenches; the troops around it in confusion; the order of the standards broken, and (as may be expected in a crisis) every man quick to obey his impulse and slow to hear the word of command, he ordered the Germans to break in. Varus and the legions, he cried, enchained once more in the old doom! And, with the word, he cut through the column at the head of a picked band, their blows being directed primarily at the horses.
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