Sexti Iulii Frontini.ī ſilueſtria cōfragoſaqꝫ loca ſe reciperēt. Ita fruſtrato robore exercitus ipſeoptīa ꝑte uiriū ſuaꝝ dextro cornu totā circuiuit aciē hoſtiū & euertit.Cornelius Scipio cui poſtea Africanus cognomē fuit: aduerſus Haſdru-balem ducē Pœnoꝝ in Hiſpania bellū gerēs: ita ꝑ cōtinuos dies ordinatūꝓduxit exercitū: ut media acies fortiſſimis fundaret̉: Sed cū hoſtes quāqͣeadē rōne aſſidue ordinati ꝓcederēt: Scipio eodē die quo ſtatuerat decer-ner̄ cōmutauit īſtructōis ordinē: & firmiſſimos id ē legiōarios ī cornibuscollocauit: ac leuē armaturā ī media acie: ſed retractatā. Ita cornibus ꝗbusipſe p̄ualebat īfirmiſſima hoſtiū partes: lunata acie aggreſſus facile fudit.Metellus in Hiſpāia eo p̄lio quo herculeiū deuicit: cū cōperiſſet cohor-tes eius quæ ualidiſſimæ uocabant̉ in media acie locatas: ipſe mediā ſuo-rum aciem reduxit: ne ante eam partē cum hoſte cōfligeret: ꝗͣ cornibus cōfligatis medios undiqꝫ circūueniſſent.Artoxerxes aduerſus Græcos ꝗ Perſidā ītrauerāt cū multitud īe ſupera-ret: latiꝰ ꝗͣ hoſtes acie īſtructa ī fcōte eꝗtē leuēqꝫ armaturā ī cornibꝰ collocauit: atqꝫ ex īduſtria lētius ꝓcedēte media acie copias hoſtiū cīxit cecidit.Cōtra Hānibal ad cānas reductis cornibus ꝓductaqꝫ media acie noſtrosprīo īpetu ꝓtruſit. Idē cōſerto p̄lio paulatī inuicē ſinuātibus ꝓcedētibuſ-qꝫ ad p̄ceptū cornibus auide inſequētē hoſtē in mediā aciē ſuā recepit: &ex utraqꝫ parte comp̄ſſum cecidit: ueterano & diuedocto uſus exercitu-Hoc enim genus ordinationis exeꝗ: niſi ꝑitus & ad omne momētum re-ſpondens miles uix poteſt.Liuius ſalinator & Claudius nero cū Haſdrubal bello punico ſecūdo decertādi neceſſitatē euitans in colle confragoſo poſt uineas aciem direxiſſet: & ipſi reductis in latera uiribus uacua fronte ex utraqꝫ parte circūue-nerunt eum: atqꝫ ita aggreſſi ſuꝑauerunt.Hānibal cū frequētibus p̄liis a Claudio Marcello ſuꝑaret̉: nouiſſime ſiccaſtra metabat̉: ut aut mōtibus aut paludibus aut ſimili locoꝝ aliqua op-portunitate adiutus aciē eo modo collocaret: ut uincentibus ꝗdem Ro-in anis pene indēnem recipere poſſet intra munimēta exercitū: cedētibusautem inſtandum liberum haberet arbitrium.Xātippus lacedæmonius ī africa aduerſus Marcū Regulū leuē armatu-rā ī prīa acie collocauit: in ſubſidio aūt robur exercitus p̄ce pitqꝫ auxiliaribus: ut emiſſis telis cederēt hoſti & cū ſe intra ſuoꝝ ordīes recepiſſent: cōſeſtim in latera diſcurrerent: & a cornibus rurſus erumperent: exceptūqꝫiam hoſtem a robuſtioribus & ipſi circūirent.Sertorius aūt idē in Hiſpania aduerſus Pōpeium fecit.Cleādridas Lacedæmonius aduerſus lycaonas denſā īſtruxit aciē: ut longe minoris exercitus ſpēm p̄beret: ſecurioribus īde hoſtibus in ipſo certa-mine deduxit ordines a lateribus: & ciecūuentos eos fudit.
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