Postridie exercitu sedatius procedente, extremos qui eo die forte cogendorum agminum officia sustinebant, necopinantes Persae adorti, negotio levi interfecissent, ni proximus equitatus noster hoc citius intellecto, per patulas valles late diffusus, tantam molem discriminis, vulneratis qui supervenerant, reppulisset.
On the following day, as the army was advancing more quietly, the Persians unexpectedly attacked the last division, which on that day chanced to have the duty of bringing up the rear, and would have slain them with little trouble, had not our cavalry, who were near by, quickly noticed this, and, spreading widely over the open valleys, prevented so great a disaster, inflicting wounds on those who came up with them.
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