Life of Marius, 1.19.2

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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2Their cries brought more of the Barbarians to the spot, and Marius had difficulty in longer restraining his soldiers, since they had fears now for their servants. Besides, the most warlike division of the enemy, by whom at an earlier time the Romans under Manlius and Caepio had been defeated[21] (they were called Ambrones and of themselves numbered more than thirty thousand), had sprung up from their meal and were running to get their arms.

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Notes

  • [21] Cf. chapter xvi. 5.

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