Barbarique hoc contemplato, globos irrupere nostrorum incauti, et parmas oppositis corporibus illidendo, obvios hastis perforabant et gladiis, furoreque urgente cruento, et tribuni et pleraque pars armatorum periere, signis ereptis, praeter ducem infaustum, qui ad id solum intentus, ut confligentibus aliis, proriperet ipse semet in fugam, urbem cursu concito petit.
On seeing this the barbarians rushed recklessly on crowds of our men, dashed their shields upon opponents bodies, and with lance and sword ran through those who opposed them. And in the press of mad and bloody strife the tribunes and the greater part of the army perished, with the loss of their standards, except for their ill-omened leader, who, intent only upon saving himself by flight while the others were fighting, made for the town in hot haste.
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