Parumper subsidiarios tutatus est locus; in reliqua acie simul est clamor proximis ab latere, ultimis ab tergo auditus, ignotum hostem prius paene quam viderent, non modo non temptato certamine sed ne clamore quidem reddito integri intactique {5} fugerunt; nec ulla caedes pugnantium fuit; terga caesa suomet ipsorum certamine in turba impedientium fugam. Circa ripam Tiberis, quo armis abiectis totum sinistrum cornu refugit, magna strages facta est, multosque imperitos nandi aut invalidos, {10} graves loricis aliisque tegminibus, hausere gurgites. Maxima tamen pars incolumis Veios perfugit, unde non modo praesidii quicquam, sed ne nuntius quidem cladis Romam est missus. Ab dextro cornu, quod procul a flumine et magis sub monte steterat, {15} Romam omnes petiere et ne clausis quidem portis urbis in arcem confugerunt. LIVY, v. 38. [Linenotes: 2-3. +simul (= simul ac) ... auditus+ = _as soon as the shout was heard, by those nearest on the flank, by the most distant in the rear_. ‘+Proximi+ denotes the Romans on the right wing, who were the first to be attacked; the Gauls after routing them pressed on to the rear of the Romans and attacked the centre and left wing (+ultimi+) from behind.’ --Whibley. 7-8. +suomet ... fugam+ = _as they hindered their own flight by their struggling with one another in the crush_.] 11. +graves+ = _weighed down with_, equivalent to a pass. partic. +hausere gurgites+ = _the currents sucked down_. --W 15. +sub monte+, i.e. the Colles Crustumini, which run parallel to the South bank of the Tiber.] B. _July 18th, a Dies Nefastus._ Pharsalia tanti Causa mali. Cedant feralia nomina Cannae, Et damnata diu Romanis Allia fastis. LUCAN, _Phars._ vii. 407-9. [Linenotes: 407. +Pharsalia+, Battle of, 48 B.C. Caesar signally defeated Pompey. 408. +feralia+ = _fatal_ (= +funesta+). 409. +fastis+, i.e. _Fasti consulares_, the registers of the higher magistrates. Cf. the Saxon Chronicle.] +The Battle.+ ‘The defeat of the Allia was never forgotten by the Romans. The panic (due to the strange appearance of the barbarians and their unwonted method of fighting) which alone had caused the defeat, struck so deep into their minds that for centuries afterwards the name and the sight of Gauls inspired them with terror.’ --Ihne. D24 THE INVASION OF THE GAULS, 390 B.C. (3) _Roman Dignity and Courage._