Insequitur has acies hostium, et clamore sublato confligitur multum adiuvante natura loci, plurimum deorum immortalium benignitate; qui cum omnibus casibus bellicis intersunt, tum praecipue eis quibus nihil ratione potuit administrari.
In their wake the enemy line appeared: the battle cry was raised and the conflict was joined, with our men being greatly aided by the nature of the ground, but most of all by the blessing of the immortal gods. For just as the gods have a role to play in all the unpredictable events of war, so especially do they involve themselves in those events where human strategy has proved to be completely powerless.