ceterum perfidia et scelere incolarum eius regionis [et] loci opportunitate, qua plurimum adiuvabatur, spoliatus, occidere dimicans quam adsignatam sibi a patria stationem deserere maluit, adeoque alacri animo suos ad id proelium quo perituri erant cohortatus est ut diceret sic prandete, commilitones, tamquam apud inferos cenaturi.
But by the treachery and villainy of the inhabitants of that district he was deprived of the advantage of position, which was his mainstay. So he preferred to die fighting rather than desert the post assigned to him by his country, and so cheerfully did he exhort his men to the battle in which they were to perish as to tell them: Take lunch, comrades, and expect dinner down below.
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