 ... had thrilled the hearts of the Romans, they flung off their coverings and appeared glittering in helms and corselets of steel, and pouring round the solid mass of the Romans, showered their arrows on them, numerous camels being at hand laden with...  The History of Rome - Pagina 398di Thomas Keightley - 1836 - 496 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Thomas Keightley - 1849 - 504 pagine
...who appeared had their armor covered to deceive the Romans. At a signal the Parthians began to beat their numerous kettledrums ; and when they thought...riding round and round so as to raise such a dust that thejiomans could not see to defend themselves. When numbers had been slain, P. Crassus broke through... | |
 | 1851 - 614 pagine
...charge with his cavalry and light troops. The crafty Parthians, feigning a flight, drew them away, and when they were at a sufficient distance from the main army, turned and assailed them. They rode round and round the Romans, raising such a dust that they could... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1858 - 532 pagine
...hand laden with arrows to give them fresh supplies of their missiles. The light troops essayed in vain to drive them off; Crassus then desired his son to...they were at a sufficient distance from the main army turned and assailed them, riding round and round so as to raise such a dust that the Romans could not... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 702 pagine
...them, numerous camels being at hand laden with arrows to give them fresh supplies of their missiles. The light troops vainly essayed to drive them off...they were at a sufficient distance from the main army turned and assailed them, riding round and round so as to raise such a dust that the Romans could not... | |
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