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39. [p. 150]Romanos primo sustinebant in angustiis Lacedaemonii, ternaeque acies tempore uno locis diversis pugnabant; 1 deinde crescente certamine nequaquam erat proelium par. [2] missilibus enim Lacedaemonii pugnabant, a quibus se et magnitudine scuti perfacile Romanus tuebatur miles, et quod alii vani, alii leves admodum ictus erant. [3] nam propter angustias loci confertamque turbam non modo ad emittenda cum procursu, quo plurimum concitantur, tela spatium habebant, sed ne ut de gradu quidem libero ac stabili conarentur. [4] itaque ex adverso missa tela nulla in corporibus, rara in scutis haerebant; [5] ab circumstantibus ex superioribus locis vulnerati quidam sunt; mox progressos iam etiam ex tectis non tela modo sed tegulae quoque inopinantis perculerunt. [6] sublatis deinde supra capita scutis continuatisque ita inter se, ut non modo ad caecos ictus sed ne ad inserendum quidem ex propinquo telum loci quicquam esset, testudine facta subibant. [7] et primae angustiae paulisper sua hostiumque refertae turba tenuerunt; postquam in patentiorem viam urbis paulatim urgentes hostem processere, non ultra vis eorum atque impetus sustineri poterant. [8] cum terga vertissent Lacedaemonii et fuga effusa superiora peterent loca, Nabis quidem ut capta urbe trepidans, quanam ipse evaderet, circumspectabat; [9] [p. 151] 2 Pythagoras cum ad cetera animo officioque ducis fungebatur, tum vero unus, ne caperetur urbs, causa fuit; succendi enim aedificia proxima muro iussit. [10] quae cum momento temporis arsissent, ut adiuvantibus ignem, qui alias ad exstinguendum opem ferre solent, ruere in Romanos tecta, [11] nec tegularum modo fragmenta sed etiam ambusta tigna ad armatos pervenire, et flamma late fundi, fumus terrorem etiam maiorem quam periculum facere. [12] itaque et qui extra urbem erant Romanorum, tum maxime impetum facientes recessere a muro, et qui iam intraverant, ne incendio ab tergo oriente intercluderentur ab suis, receperunt sese; [13] et Quinctius, postquam, quid rei esset, vidit, receptui canere iussit. ita iam capta prope urbe revocati in castra redierunt.

1 a. u. c. 559.

2 a. Chr. n. 195.

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