Verum principe volitante inter prima discrimina proeliorum, exsilivit nostra succinctior armatura, aversorumque Persarum et beluarum, suffragines concidebat et dorsa.
But while the emperor rushed hither and thither amid the foremost ranks of the combatants, our light-armed forces leaped forth upon them, and as the Persians turned in flight, they hacked at their legs and backs, and those of the elephants.
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