Inter haec eminus petebatur; quem testudine obiecta, milites'ut recederet perpellere nequierant'tuebantur.
As he said these words he was being attacked at long range; and the soldiers'they had been unable to prevail upon him to retire'were protecting him by interposing a tortoise-formation.
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