postremo quadringentos equites subornavit qui simulata transitione petierunt consulem; a quo iussi more transfugarum depositis armis in ultimam pugnae partem secedere, destrictis gladiis, quos inter tunicas et loricas abdiderant, poplites pugnantium Romanorum ceciderunt.
Lastly, he set up four hundred horsemen, who went to the Consul pretending to be deserters. The Consul ordered them as such to lay down their arms and retire to the furthest part of the battle, as deserters are wont to do. Drawing swords which they had secreted between their tunics and breastplates, they hamstrung the fighting Romans.
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