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Show ThefifeBeceofrbefrfpart Cunt flingers of the Baleares: u+/drabal brake vpon the Confull Pas/as;and was roughly eh. countred ; ‘not after the manner offeruice on horfe-backe, vfed in thofe timeswheelin about A/man-like ; but cach giving onina righr'line, Pouldronto Pouldron, ‘as having the Riner on'the one hand, and the fhoulder ofthe foot onthe other hand fo thar there was no wayleft,but ta pierce and bteake thorow. Wherefore they not onely vfed their Lances and Swords; buerufhing violently among(tthe Enemics, grafped one another': and fo,theirhorfes running from vnderthem,fell manytothe ground;where ftarting vp againe, they began to deale blowes like foot-menwTniconclufion,the Roman horfe were ouer- borneyand driuenbyplaineforceto ftaggeringirecoile: Thisthe Confull Pastus couldnotremedy.For 4/drubal,with his boifterous Gaulesand Spaniards,was not tobe ay refitted by thefe Roman Gentlemen, ynequall both<it number, and in horfmanfhip, Whenthe barrailes came to ioynitig,the Roman Legionaries found worke enough, and fomewhat'more than enough,to breakethat great Crefcent, ypon which theyfirft fell : fo ftrongly forthe while; did the Gaules and Spaniflifoot make refiftance. Wherefore the two points oftheir battaile drew towards the midi ; by whofe aide, thefe Oppofites were forced to disband; and fyebacketo theirfirft place: This they did in great hafte and feare : and werewith no lee hafte,and folly purfied. Vpon the Africans that ftood behindethem,they needed notto fall foule's! both for that there was voide goome enough; and fordfmuch as the Reare, or Hornes of this Moone, ‘pointed into the fafe retrait; where Manmibal with his‘Carthaginians was readyto re-enforce them, 20 when time fhould require.' "In this hafty'retrait, or fight, of the Gaules and Spaniards ; it hapned,as'was neceflary,that they vvho had ftood: inthelimbeorvtter compafle of the halfe Moone,madethe innermoft orconcaue furface thereof(difordered and broken though it were whenit was forcedto tirrethe infide outward : ‘the hornes or points thereof,as yet,vntouched,onely turning 'round,& recoyling very little.Sothe Romans, in purfuing them, were inclofed in an halfe circle; which they:{hould not haue needed greatly to regard, (for thatthe fides of it were exceedirig thin and'broken ; andthe bot tomeofit, none other thanathrong ofmen routedyand feeming vnable to make refi- Stance )had all the enemies foot bin cafvinro this one great body; that wasin a mannet diffolued: But whileft the'Legions, following their fuppofed victory, rufhed on vpon , thofe that ftood before them,and therby'vnwittingly engaged themfelues deeply with- 2 in the principall ftrength of the Enemies} hedging themin on both hands ; the two As frican Battalions on either fide aduahced'fo far,that getting beyond theReafeofthem, they enclofed them,in amanner,behindetand forwardthey couldnotpaffe arte; with out remouing Hann:bal and 2tagoy Which madethat waythe leaft eafie. Hereby it's couered the apparant, Thatthe great Crefcent, before {poken of, was of fuchextent, as the Romans Africans,who lay behindeiit vndifcerned) vntill nowy' Foritis agreed,that werethus empaled vzawares, and tharthey behaued'themfelues, as men that thought vpon noother worke, than what was found them by the Gaules. Neitheris it crcflble,| with the whole bulke of theis that they would haue beene fo mad, as tol'run head-long) Armie,into the throat of flaughter; had they feene thofe weapons bent againft them at the firft, which when they did fee,they hadlittlehope to: efcape: Mach might bee imputed totheir heatoffight;and rafhnefle of inferiour. Captaines xbut fince the Con: full Paulus,aman fo expert inwarre, being vanquifhed ‘in borfe, had. put himie's ci mong the Legions; itcannorbe fuppofed, that hee and they did wilfully thus engage themfelues. 4/arubal, hauling broken thetroupes'of Roman horfe,: that were ed by the Confull Pai/us, followed vpon themyalong the! Riuer fide, beating downe 20 killing, asmany as he could; (which wer¢almoft all ofthem) without regardof raking prifoners. The Confull himfelfe was either drivenivpon his owne Legions, on 50 lingly didcafthimfelfeamong them; \as hoping by them to make good the days a withftanding the defeat of-his horfe. Buthefailed of this his expectation. No leffe he chearedyphis men as wellas hecould, bothwith:comfortable words, and : o the'cxample ofhis:owneftoupbehauiour': beating downe,and killing many a_‘the semies with his owne hand»:'The like did Hannibal among his Carthaginias, famepact ofthe battaile,and with better'fucceffe.Forthe Conful receiueda blow. ; 4 afling,that did him grear hurt: andthough atroupe of Roman Geatlemien, ‘d .that bout him,did their beft to fauechim from further hatmeyet was he fo hardly laieat he wasconipelled; by wounds and weakneffe, to forfake his horfe. Hereuponay |