Et quia sinistrum cornu ad usque plaustra ipsa accessit, ultra (siqui tulissent suppetias) processurum: a reliquo equitatu desertum, multitudine hostili urgente, ac si ruina aggeris magni, oppressum atque deiectum est: steterunt improtecti pedites ita concatervatis manipulis, ut vix mucronem exserere aut manus reducere quisquam posset.
And because the left wing, which had made its way as far as the very wagons, and would have gone farther if it had had any support, being deserted by the rest of the cavalry, was hard pressed by the enemys numbers, it was crushed, and overwhelmed, as if by the downfall of a mighty rampart. The foot-soldiers thus stood unprotected, and their companies were so crowded together that hardly anyone could pull out his sword or draw back his arm.
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