This is Jocco podcast number 130 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening

Caesar

When he perceived that the seventh legion which stood close by him was also hard pressed by the enemy

Directed the tribunes of the soldiers to affect a junction of the legions gradually and make their charge upon the enemy with a double front

Which having been done since they brought assistance to the one to the other

Nor feared less their rear should be surrounded by the enemy

They began to stand their ground more boldly and to fight more courageously

In the meantime the soldiers of the two legions which had been in the rear of the army as a guard for the baggage train

upon the battle being reported to them

Quickened their pace and were seen by the enemy on top of the hill and

Titus having gained possession of the camp of the enemy and observed from higher ground what was going on in our camp

Sent the tenth legion as a relief to our men who

When they had learned from the flight of the horses and the sucklers in what position the affair was and

In how great danger the camp and the legion and the commander were involved

Left undone nothing to dispatch

By their arrival so great a change of matters was made that our men

Even those who had fallen down

Exhausted with wounds leaned on their shields and renewed the fight

Then the camp retainers though unarmed

Seeing the enemy completely dismayed attacked them though they were armed

The horsemen too that they might by their valor

Blot the disgrace of their flight thrust themselves before the legionary soldiers in all parts of the battle

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