Ceterum ex omni multitudine non amplius quadraginta, memores nominis Romani, grege facto, locum cepere paulo quam alii editiorem neque inde maxuma vi depelli quiverunt, sed tela eminus missa remittere, pauci in pluribus minus frustrari; sin Numidae propius adcessissent, ibi vero virtutem ostendere et eos maxuma vi caedere, fundere atque fugare.
Yet out of the whole multitude, not more than forty being mindful of their reputation as Romans formed a cluster and took a position a little higher than the other soldiers; and from that position they could not be dislodged by the utmost force, but they threw right back the missiles launched from a distance against them; since they were few in the midst of superior numbers, they hardly ever missed. But if the Numidians drew nearer, there indeed our men showed their valor, and they cut them down with the greatest fury, routed them and put them to flight.
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