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Author: latin-ancient
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English[en]
"Through eagerness to perform his journey, he neglected to make further inquiries, but looking back to the company next him, ""Don't you see, soldiers,"" says he, ""that the answer of the prisoners corresponds with the account of the deserters, that the king is not with him, and that he sent only a small force which was not able to withstand a few horse? Hasten then to spoil, to glory; that we may now begin to think of rewarding you, and returning you thanks."" The achievements of the horse were great in themselves, especially if their small number be compared with the vast host of Numidians."
Latin[la]
"Reliqua studio itineris conficiendi quaerere praetermittit proximaque respiciens signa, ""videtisne,"" inquit, ""milites, captivorum orationem cum perfugis convenire? abesse regem, exiguas esse copias missas, quae paucis equitibus pares esse non potuerint? Proinde ad praedam, ad gloriam properate, ut iam de praemiis vestris et de referenda gratia cogitare incipiamus."" Erant per se magna, quae gesserant equites, praesertim cum eorum exiguus numerus cum tanta multitudine Numidarum confertur."