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Caesar, fearing to pursue them very far, because woods
and morasses intervened, and also [because] he saw that they suffered no small
loss in abandoning their position, reaches Cicero the
same day with all his forces safe. He witnesses with surprise the towers,
mantelets, and [other] fortifications belonging to the enemy: the legion having
been drawn out, he finds that even every tenth soldier had not escaped without
wounds. From all these things he judges with what danger and with what great
courage matters had been conducted; he commends Cicero
according to his desert, and likewise the legion; he addresses individually the
centurions and the tribunes of the soldiers, whose valor he had discovered to
have been signal. He receives information of the death of Sabinus and Cotta from the prisoners. An
assembly being held the following day, he states the occurrence; he consoles and
encourages the soldiers; he suggests, that the disaster, which had been
occasioned by the misconduct and rashness of his lieutenant, should be borne
with a patient mind, because by the favor of the immortal gods and their own
valor, neither was lasting joy left to the enemy, nor very lasting grief to
them.
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