His ita ordinatis praecipit ut, si falcatos currus cum fremitu barbari emitterent, ipsi laxatis ordinibus impetum incurrentium silentio exciperent, haud dubius sine noxa transcursuros, si nemo se opponeret; sin autem sine fremitu immisissent, eos ipsi clamore terrerent pavidosque equos telis utrimque suffoderent.
When the army was thus arranged, he warned them, in case the enemy should make a great uproar as they sent forth their scythe-bearing chariots, to receive them in silence as they rushed upon them, and open their ranks (he had no doubt that they would pass through without doing harm, if no one opposed them); but if they sent them forth without noise, they themselves were to terrify them by shouting and with their javelins stab the frightened horses from both sides at once.
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