Et Britanni, qui adhuc pugnae expertes summa collium insederant et paucitatem nostrorum vacui spernebant, degredi paulatim et circumire terga vincentium coeperant, ni id ipsum veritus Agricola quattuor equitum alas, ad subita belli retentas, venientibus opposuisset, quantoque ferocius adcucurrerant, tanto acrius pulsos in fugam disiecisset.
Meanwhile, such of the Britons as had occupied the hill-tops, still unreached by the fighting and with leisure to deride the small numbers of our men, had begun, little by little, to descend and to surround the flanks of the conquering army; they might have succeeded had not Agricola, in fear of this very contingency, thrown across their path four squadrons of cavalry which he had held back for emergencies; the enemy were routed and dislodged with a fury proportionate to the confidence of their advance.
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