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16.
Sic accensos et proelium poscentis in campum, cui
Idistaviso nomen, deducunt. is medius inter Visurgim et
collis, ut ripae fluminis cedunt aut prominentia montium
resistunt, inaequaliter sinuatur. pone tergum insurgebat
silva, editis in altum ramis et pura humo inter arborum
truncos. campum et prima silvarum barbara acies tenuit:
soli Cherusci iuga insedere ut proeliantibus Romanis desuper incurrerent. noster exercitus sic incessit: auxiliares
Galli Germanique in fronte, post quos pedites sagittarii;
dein quattuor legiones et cum duabus praetoriis cohortibus
ac delecto equite Caesar; exim totidem aliae legiones et
levis armatura cum equite sagittario ceteraeque sociorum
cohortes. intentus paratusque miles ut ordo agminis in
aciem adsisteret.
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