Evaserant tamen Alexander et Charus, quos cum xxx delectis praemiserat rex, et iam pugnare comminus coeperant; sed cum superne tela barbari ingererent,  saepius ipsi feriebantur quam vulnerabant.
Nevertheless Alexander and Charus, whom the king had sent ahead with thirty selected men, had gained the height and were already fighting hand to hand; but since the barbarians showered javelins upon them from above, they themselves were wounded more often than they  inflicted wounds.
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