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The _Pavilion_
of the _Lord General_ is in
the midst of the _Camp_, 10.
_Tentorium_
_summi Imperatoris_ est in
medio _Castrorum_, 10.
CXLI.
The Army and the Fight.
Acies & Prœlium.
[Illustration]
When the _Battel_
is to be fought
the _Army_ is set in order, and
divided into the _Front_, 1.
the _Rere_, 2.
and the _Wings_, 3.
Quando _Pugna_
committenda est,
_Acies_ instruitur, &
dividitur in _Frontem_, 1.
_Tergum_, 2.
& _Alas_ (_Cornua_), 3.
The _Foot_, 4.
are intermixed
with the _Horse_, 5.
_Peditatus_, 4.
intermiscetur
_Equitatui_, 5.
That is divided
into _Companies_,
this into _Troops_.
Ille distinguitur
in _Centurias_,
hic in _Turmas_.
These carry _Banners_, 6.
those _Flags_, 7.
in the midst of them.
Illæ in medio
ferunt _Vexilla_, 6.
hæ _Labara_, 7.
Their Officers are,
_Corporals_, _Ensigns_,
_Lieutenants_, _Captains_, 8.
Eorum Præfecti sunt,
_Decuriones_, _Signiferi_,
_Vicarii_, _Centuriones_, 8.
_Commanders of the Horse_, 9.
_Lieutenant Colonels_,
_Colonels_,
and he that is the chief of all,
the _General_.
_Magistri Equitum_, 9.
_Tribuni_,
_Chiliarchæ_,
& summus omnium
_Imperator_.
The _Drummers_, 10.
and the _Drumslades_, 11.
as also the _Trumpeters_, 12.
call to Arms,
and inflame the Soldier.
_Tympanistæ_, 10.
& _Tympanotribæ_, 11.
ut & _Tubicines_, 12.
vocant ad Arma
& inflammant Militem.
At the first Onset
the _Muskets_, 13. and
_Ordnance_, 14. are shot off.
Primo Conflictu,
_Bombardæ_, 13. &
_Tormenta_, 14. exploduntur.
Afterwards they fight, 15.
hand to hand
with _Pikes_ and _Swords_.
Postea pugnatur, 15.
cominus
_Hastis_ & _Gladiis_.
_They that are overcome_
are _slain_, 16.
or taken prisoners,
or _run away_, 17.
_Victi_
_trucidantur_, 16.
vel capiuntur,
vel _aufugiunt_, 17.
_They that are for the Reserve_, 18.
come upon them
out of their _places where_
_they lay in wait_.
_Succenturiati_, 18.
superveniunt
ex _insidiis_.
The _Carriages_, 19.
are plundered.
_Impedimenta_, 19.
spoliantur.
CXLII.
The Sea-Fight.
Pugna Navalis.
[Illustration]
A _Sea-fight_
is terrible,
when huge _Ships_,
like _Castles_,
run one upon another
_Navale prœlium_
terribile est,
quum ingentes _Naves_,
veluti _Arces_,
concurrunt
with their _Beaks_, 1.
or shatter one another
with their _Ordnance_, 2.
_Rostris_, 1.
aut se invicem quassant
_Tormentis_, 2.
and so being bored thorow
they drink in
their own Destruction,
and are _sunk_, 3.
atque ita perforatæ,
imbibunt
perniciem suam
& _submerguntur_, 3.
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