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42.
Attonitas subito terrore mentis falsum gaudium in
languorem vertit, repertis qui descivisse a Vitellio exercitum
ementirentur. is rumor ab exploratoribus Vitellii dispersus,
an in ipsa Othonis parte seu dolo seu forte surrexerit, parum compertum. omisso pugnae ardore Othoniani ultro salutavere; et hostili murmure excepti, plerisque suorum ignaris quae causa salutandi, metum proditionis fecere. tum
incubuit hostium acies, integris ordinibus, robore et numero
praestantior: Othoniani, quamquam dispersi, pauciores, fessi,
proelium tamen acriter sumpsere. et per locos arboribus ac
vineis impeditos non una pugnae facies: comminus eminus,
catervis et cuneis concurrebant. in aggere viae conlato gradu
corporibus et umbonibus niti, omisso pilorum iactu gladiis
et securibus galeas loricasque perrumpere: noscentes inter
se, ceteris conspicui, in eventum totius belli certabant.
Historiae. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1911.
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