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4. At ex altera parte C. Antonius, pedibus æger, quòd prælio adesse nequibat, M. Petreio legato exercitum permittit. 5. Ille cohortīs veteranas, quas tumulti causă conscripserat, in fronte, post eas ceterum exercitum in subsidiis, locat. Ipse equo circumiens, unumquemque nominans adpellat, hortatur, rogat, uti meminerint, se contra latrones inermīs, pro patriā, pro liberis, pro aris atque focis suis, certare. 6. Homo militaris, quòd ampliùs annos triginta tribunus, aut præfectus, aut legatus, aut prætor cum magnā gloriā fuerat, plerosque ipsos factaque eorum fortia noverat: ea commemorando militum animos accendebat.

LX.-I. Sed ubi, rebus omnibus exploratis, Petreius tubā signum dat, cohortis paulatim incedere jubet; idem, facit hostium exercitus. 2. Postquam eò ventum est, unde a ferentariis prælium committi posset, maxumo clamore cum infestis signis concurrunt; pila omittunt; gladiis res geritur. 3. Veterani, pristinæ virtutis memores, comminus acriter instare: illi haud timidi resistunt: maxumā vi certatur. 4. Interea Catilina cum expeditis in primă acie versari, laborantibus succurrere, integros pro sauciis arcessere, omnia providere, multùm ipse pugnare, sæpe hostem ferire; strenui militis et boni imperatoris officia simul exsequebatur. 5. Petreius, ubi videt Catilinam, contrà ac ratus erat, magnā vi tendere, cohortem prætoriam in medios hostīs inducit; eos perturbatos atque alios alibi resistentes interficit; deinde utrimque ex lateribus adgreditur. 6. Manlius

et Fæsulanus in primis pugnantes cadunt. 7. Catilina postquam fusas copias seque cum paucis relictum videt, memor generis atque pristinæ dignitatis in confertissumos hostes incurrit ibique pugnans confoditur.

LXI.-I. Sed, confecto prælio, tum verò cerneres, quanta audacia, quantaque animi vis fuisset in exercitu Catilinæ. 2. Nam fere, quem quisque pugnando locum ceperat, eum, amissā animā, corpore tegebat. 3. Pauci autem, quos cohors prætoria disjecerat, paulo divorsiùs, sed omnes tamen advorsis volneribus conciderant. 4. Catilina verò longè a suis inter hostium cadavera repertus est, paululum etiam spirans, ferociamque animi, quam habuerat vivus, in voltu retinens. 5. Postremò, ex omni copia, neque in prælio neque in fugā quisquam civis ingenuus captus est; 6. ita cuncti suæ hostiumque vitæ juxtà pepercerant. 7. Neque tamen exercitus populi Romani lætam aut incruentam victoriam adeptus erat : nam strenuissimus quisque aut occiderat in prœlio, aut graviter volneratus discesserat. 8. Multi autem, qui de castris visundi aut spoliandi gratia processerant, volventes hostilia cadavera, amicum alii, pars hospitem aut cognatum reperiebant: fuere item qui inimicos suos cognoscerent. 9. Ita variè per omnem exercitum lætitia, mæror, luctus atque gaudia agitabantur.

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