Igitur, futura volvens, non aliud repperit quam ut hostem silvis coerceret, donec saucii quantumque gravioris agminis anteirent; nam medio montium et paludum porrigebatur planities, quae tenuem aciem pateretur.
On considering the options, he could not find any other solution than to keep the enemy in the woods until his wounded soldiers and the more heavily equipped part of his group had passed on. This is because there was a flat area stretching between the mountain and the swamp that was just enough to accommodate a sparse battle line.