15.
The sail yards [of the enemy], as we have said, being brought down, although two
and [in some cases] three ships [of theirs] surrounded each one [of ours], the
soldiers strove with the greatest energy to board the ships of the enemy; and,
after the barbarians observed this taking place, as a great many of their ships
were beaten, and as no relief for that evil could be discovered, they hastened
to seek safety in flight. And, having now turned their vessels to that quarter
in which the wind blew, so great a calm and lull suddenly arose, that they could
not move out of their place, which circumstance, truly, was exceedingly
opportune for finishing the business; for our men gave chase and took them one
by one, so that very few out of all the number, [and those] by the intervention
of night, arrived at the land, after the battle had lasted almost from the
fourth hour till sun-set.
C. Julius Caesar. Caesar's Gallic War. Translator. W. A. McDevitte. Translator. W. S. Bohn. 1st Edition. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1869. Harper's New Classical Library.
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