In huius ulteriore ripa Cassobellauno duce immensa hostium multitudo consederat, ripamque fluminis ac pene totum sub aqua vadum acutissimis sudibus praestruxerat: quarum vestigia sudium ibidem usque hodie visuntur, et videtur inspectantibus quod singulae earum ad modum humani femoris grossae, et circumfusae plumbo immobiliter erant in profundum fluminis infixae: quod ubi a Romanis deprehensum ac vitatum est, barbari legionum impetum non ferentes, silvis sese obdidere; unde crebris eruptionibus Romanos graviter ac saepe lacerabant.
On the farther side thereof a vast host of the Britons warded the banks under Cassivellaunus their captain, which had sticked the bank of the river and well-nigh all the ford thick of sharpened stakes, of which stakes certain remnants unto this day are to be seen on the same spot, and it is plain to view that each of them (of the bigness of a mans thigh and covered with lead) had been sticked fast in the bottom of the river: which when the Romans had espied and escaped, the barbarians not being able to stand the assault of the legions, hid themselves in the woods; out of which they often breaking out many times greatly endomaged the Romans.
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