Nec minus paulo postea legionem secutam, iamque adventantem ipse cum promptissimis retrorsus excurrens, fundensque in modum scintillarum sagittas, sed voluntate deerrans, ita in fugam compulit ut cum tribuno milites universi perterrefacti, vividius quam venerant remearent ad muros.
More than that, when a legion followed him a little later and overtook him, Papa charged back upon them with his bravest men, pouring in his arrows like a shower of sparks. He missed intentionally but put them to flight, so that the whole legion with its tribune was terrified and they all returned to the walls more briskly than they had come.
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