Nec minor Germanis animus, sed genere pugnae et armorum superabantur, cum ingens multitudo artis locis praelongas hastas non protenderet, non colligeret, neque adsultibus et velocitate corporum uteretur, coacta stabile ad proelium; contra miles, cui scutum pectori adpressum et insidens capulo manus, latos barbarorum artus, nuda ora foderet viamque strage hostium aperiret, inprompto iam Arminio ob continua pericula, sive illum recens acceptum vulnus tardaverat.
In hardihood the Germans held their own; but they were handicapped by the nature of the struggle and the weapons. Their extraordinary numbers'unable in the restricted space to extend or recover their tremendous lances, or to make use of their rushing tactics and nimbleness of body'were compelled to a standing fight; while our own men, shields tight to the breast and hand on hilt, kept thrusting at the barbarians great limbs and bare heads and opening a bloody passage through their antagonists'Arminius being now less active, whether owing to the succession of dangers or to the hampering effects of his recent wound
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