qui, cum apud Contrebiam res gereretur, collocatas a se in quadam statione quinque cohortes atque ex ea viribus hostium depulsas repetere eandem stationem e vestigio iussit, non quod speraret ab iis amissum locum recuperari posse, sed ut praeteritae culpam pugnae insequentis certaminis manifesto periculo puniret.
While he was campaigning at Contrebia, five cohorts whom he had stationed at a certain post were driven from it by enemy strength. Metellus ordered them to attack the same post immediately, not because he hoped that the position they had lost could be recovered but to punish the fault of the former engagement by the evident peril of the struggle that would follow.
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