"Then angrily turning to the Praetorians, ""Clowns,"" said he, ""unless you are victorious, what other general, what other camp will receive you? There are your colours and your arms; defeat is death, for disgrace you have exhausted."" A shout was raised on all sides, and the soldiers of the third legion saluted, as is the custom in Syria, the rising sun."
ceterum ea ubique formido fuit apud fugientis occursantis, in acie pro vallo, ut deleri cum universo exercitu Caecinam potuisse, ni Suetonius Paulinus receptui cecinisset, utrisque in partibus percrebruerit.latin-ancient latin-ancient