Dumque omnes dispersi per ignotos tramites cedunt, imperator diris pavoribus circumsaeptus, paulatimque insiliens funerum moles, ad lancearios confugit et mattiarios: qui dum multitudo tolerabatur hostilis, fixis corporibus steterant inconcussi.
While all scattered in flight over unknown paths, the emperor, hedged about by dire terrors, and slowly treading over heaps of corpses, took refuge with the lancers and the mattiarii, who, so long as the vast numbers of the enemy could be sustained, had stood unshaken with bodies firmly planted.
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