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[8] but directed the battle as if he were surveying it from a distance, darting hither and thither himself and bringing aid to those whom he thought to be overwhelmed.

Here Leonnatus the Macedonian, observing that an Italian was intent upon Pyrrhus, and was riding out against him and following him in every movement from place to place, said: ‘Seest thou, 0 King, that Barbarian yonder, riding the black horse with white feet? He looks like a man who has some great and terrible design in mind. ’

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