cum subito pars equitatus Caesaris cum levi armatura contra Gaetulos iniussu ac temere longius progressi paludemque transgressi multitudinem hostium pauci sustinere non potuerunt levique armatura deserta pulsi convulneratique uno equite amisso, multis equis sauciis, levis armaturae XXVII occisis ad suos refugerunt.
Whereupon part of Caesars cavalry together with the light-armed troops, acting without orders and without discretion, suddenly advanced too far, crossed a marshy tract and found themselves too far outnumbered to be able to contain the enemy. Abandoning the light-armed troops, the cavalry were driven back and fled to their own lines not without casualties'one horseman missing, many horses wounded and twenty-seven light-armed soldiers killed.
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