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The foe, tremendously elated by this success, followed persistentlyA brief lacuna follows which does not greatly affect the sense. . . . so that he found it necessary to fight; but he himself would have been killed and his army utterly annihilated, had not the enemy, attacking in disorder, seen afar off the auxiliaries of the Mazices, in the van of which were some Romans; so thinking that they were attacked by many columns, they turned in flight and opened to our men ways of escape which before had been blocked.
5.31
From there, leading his army safe and sound, Theodosius came to an estate called Mazucanus, where he burned a few deserters alive and mutilated the rest as he had the archers whose hands were cut off;See § 22, above. and in the month of February he reached Tipasa.
5.32
There he made a long halt, and after the manner of the famous LingererQ. Fabius Maximus in the Hannibalic war, nicknamed Cunctator because of his policy of caution. of old took counsel with himself as the circumstances demanded, planning, if chance gave the opportunity, rather through strategy and discretion than by the danger of battle, to overthrow an enemy who was pugnacious and effective in the use of missiles.
