![]() Later, however, the barbarians, after proving victorious over the infantry but being defeated by the cavalry, withdrew to the Thames, where they encamped after cutting off the ford by means of stakes, some visible and some under water. 3 1 For the time being both parties remained where they were. ![]() 4 The Romans upon meeting them were at first thrown into confusion by the attack of their chariots, but later opened ranks, and by letting them pass through and then from the side hurling their weapons at the men as they rushed past, made the battle equal. ![]() P411 arsenal itself, with Cassivellaunus, regarded as the foremost of the chiefs in the island, at their head. 3 Soon after, when a storm had once more damaged the Romans' ships, the natives sent for allies and set out against their naval Indeed, after being defeated in a certain battle on open ground they drew the invaders in pursuit to their retreat, and killed many in their turn. 2 After they had put them in safety by cutting down the surrounding wood and piling more upon it row after row until their goods were in a sort of stockade, they proceeded to annoy the Romans' foraging parties. 2 1 The barbarians, then, for the reason stated were unable to hinder his approach, and being more afraid than before, because he had come with a larger army, they carried away all their most valuable things into the most wooded and overgrown portions of the neighbouring country. 3 He came to land at the same place as before, no one daring to oppose him because of the number of his ships and the fact that they approached many points on the shore at the same time and he straightway got possession of the harbour. ![]() 2 When the weather became fit for sailing, he crossed over again to Britain, giving as his excuse that the people of that country, thinking that he would never make trial of them again because he had once retired empty-handed, had not sent all the hostages they had promised but the truth of the matter was that he mightily coveted the island, so that he would certainly have found some other pretext, if this had not offered itself. P409 undertakings constructed ships of a style half-way between his own swift vessels and the native ships of burden, endeavouring to make them at once as light and as seaworthy as possible and capable of being left high and dry without injury. In Gaul during the year of these same consuls, Lucius Domitius and Appius Claudius, Caesar among other Marcellus.ฤก 1 These were the occurrences in Rome while the city was passing through its seven-hundredth year. ![]()
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