51.
Our soldiers, being hard pressed on every side, were dislodged from their
position, with the loss of forty-six centurions; but the tenth legion, which had
been posted in reserve on ground a little more level, checked the Gauls in their eager pursuit. It was supported by the
cohorts of the thirteenth legion, which, being led from the smaller camp, had,
under the command of Titus Sextius, occupied the higher ground. The
legions, as soon as they reached the plain, halted and faced the enemy.
Vercingetorix led back his men from the part of the hill within
the fortifications. On that day little less than seven hundred of the soldiers
were missing.
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