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forces should be routed in battle, in order that thereby the enemy niitiht be oecii{)ied in picking up the spoils and they themselves might more easily escape.^
Tryphon, king of Syria, wlien defeated, scattered money along the whole line of his retreat. While the cavalry of Antiochus delayed to pick this up, he effected his escape. ^
Quintus Sertoi'ius, when defeated in battle by Quintus Metellus Pius, being convinced that not even an organized retreat Avas safe, commanded his soldiers to disband and retire> informing them at what point he desired them to reassemble.^
'iriathus, leader of the Lusitanians, extricated himself from an awkward position, and from the menace of our troops, by the same method as Sertorius, disbanding his forces and then re- assembling.*
Horatius Codes, when Porsenna's army was press- ing hard upon him, commanded his supporters to return over the bridge to the City, and then to destroy the bridge in order that the foe might not follow them. While this was being done, he him- self, as defender of the bridgehead, held up the oncoming enemy. Then, when the crash told him that the bridge had been destroyed, he threw him- self into the stream, and swam across it in his armour, exhausted though he was by wounds.^
Afranius, when fleeing from Caesar near Ilerda in Spain, pitched camp, while Caesar was pressing close upon him. When Caesar did the same and sent his men oft' to gather forage, Afranius suddenly gave the signal to continue the retreat.®
When Anthony was retreating, hard pressed by
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