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selves with no armour, were, thence, straight 

 broken in their ranks. Where they resisted the 

 auxiliaries, they were slaughtered by the swords 

 and javehns of the soldiers of the legions, and 

 by the great sabres and pikes of the auxiliaries, 

 where they faced those of the legions, — signal 

 was this victory. The wife and daughter of 

 Caractacus were taken prisoners, and his brothers 

 surrendered to mercy.' 



Caractacus himself was, shortly after this 

 battle, delivered up to the Romans, having op- 

 posed them for nine years. But the surrender 

 of their chief did not subdue the spirit of these 

 inland Britons, who, from the statement of 

 Julius Caesar, on the report of others, have been 

 represented as a few barbarians, for it appears, 

 from the account of Tacitus, that they shortly 

 afterwards * assailed, by surprise, the camp 

 marshal and legionary cohorts left to rear forts 

 among the Silures, and but for sudden succours 

 from the circumjacent garrisons, our troops had 

 been cut in pieces. As it was, the marshal 

 and eight centurions were slain, with the most 

 resolute soldiers. Soon after, they entirely 

 routed our foragers, and even the troops left 

 to guard them.' 



And a little further on, the historian says, 



