Dein postero die sub montis radicibus acie regione instructa non apertissuma'namque arbores multis locis erant rarae'proelium commiserunt hoc consilio, ut et montium altitudine tegerentur et arborum tractu equitatus hostium impediretur, ne multitudine clauderentur.
Then, on the following day, the army was drawn up at the foot of the mountain in a part of the plain that was not wholly open'for there were isolated trees in many places'and they joined battle. The purpose was to protect themselves by the high mountains and at the same time prevent the enemys cavalry, hampered by the scattered trees, from surrounding them with their superior numbers.
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