Book 25
3.13
On that day fifty Persian grandees and satraps fell, besides a great number of common soldiers, and among them the distinguished generals MerenaCf. 1, 11, above. and NohodaresCf. xviii. 6, 16. were slain. The boastfulness of antiquity may view with amazement the twenty battles of Marcellus in various places;Pliny, N.H. vii. 92, and Solinus, 1,107, speak of thirty-nine. it may add Sicinius Dentatus,Val. Max. iii. 2, 24; Gell. ii. 11, 2; etc. honoured with a multitude of military crowns; it may besides admire Sergius,Cf. Pliny and Solin., l.c. who (they say) was wounded twenty-three times in different battles, and whose last descendant Catiline tarnished the glorious renown of these victories with an indelible stain. Yet the joy in our success was marred by sorrow.This sentence comes in abruptly: Büchele seems to refer it to what precedes.
3.14
For while the fight went on everywhere after the withdrawal of the leader, the right wing of the army was exhausted, and Anatolius, at that time chief marshal of the court, was killed. Salutius, the prefect, was in extreme danger, but was saved by the help of his adjutant, and by a fortunate chance escaped death, while Phosphorius, a councillor who chanced to be at his side, was lost. Some of the court officialsCf. xxv. 6, 11. and soldiers, amid many dangers, took refuge in a neighbouring fortress, and were able to rejoin the army only after three days.
