up at daybreak in front of the camp,
and ordered the cavalry to advance into the plain. The Teutones,
observing this, would not wait for the Romans to come down and fight
with them on fair ground, but with all speed and in passion they took
to their arms and advanced up the hill. Marius sent his officers to
every part of the army, with orders to the soldiers to stand firm in
their ranks till the enemy came within the reach of their spears,
which they were to discharge, and then to draw their swords, and drive
against the barbarians with their shields; for as the ground was
unfavourable to the enemy, their blows would have no force, and their
line no strength, owing to the unevenness of the surface, which would
render their footing unstable and wavering. The advice which he gave
to his soldiers he showed that he was the first to put in practice;
for in all martial training Marius was inferior to none, and in
courage he left all far behind him.

XXI. The Romans accordingly awaiting the enemy's attack, and coming to
close quarters with them, checked their advance up the hill, and the
barbarians, being hard pressed, gradually retreated to the plain, and
while those in the van were rallying on the level ground, there was a
shout and confusion in the rear. For Marcellus had not let the
critical moment pass by, but when the shouts rose above the hills,
bidding his men spring from their ambush at a rapid pace and with loud
shouts he fell on the enemy's rear and began to cut them down. Those
in the rear communicating the alarm to those in front of them, put the
whole army into confusion, and after sustaining this double attack for
no long time, they broke their ranks and fled. In the pursuit the
Romans took prisoners and killed to the number of above one hundred
thousand:[87] they also took their tents, waggons, and property, all
which, with the exception of what was pilfered, was given to Marius,
by the unanimous voice of the soldiers. But though he received so
magnificent a present, it was thought that he got nothing at all
proportioned to his services, considering the magnitude of the danger.
Some authorities do not agree with the statement as to the gift of the
spoil, nor yet about the number of the slain. However, they say that
the people of Massalia[88] made fences round their vineyards with the
bones, and that the soil, after the bodies had rotted and the winter
rains had fallen, was so fertilised and saturated with the