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His soldiers feared most the men in full armour, [p. 207] but he bade them not to be afraid, saying that it would be harder work to strip these men than to defeat them. He was the first to advance against the hill, and observing the movement of the barbarians, he cried out, ‘We are victorious, my men,’ and, meeting no resistance, he pursued, losing only five Romans who fell, and he slew over an hundred thousand of the enemy. 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Lucullus, chap. xxviii. (510 D-511 B).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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