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then returned, to camp outside the entrenchments, in order that they might become used to dangers while without defences, and so grow more daring against the enemy. ^
In the consulship of Publius Cornelius Nasica and Decimus Junius those who had deserted from the army were condemned to be scourged publicly with rods and then to be sold into slavery. -
Doniitius Corbulo, when in Armenia, ordered two squadrons and three cohorts, which had given way before the eneni}- near the fortress of Initia, to camp outside the entrenchments, until by steady work and successful raids they should atone for their disgrace.^
When the consul Aurelius Cotta under pressing necessit}' ordered the knights to participate in a certain work and a part of them renounced his authority, he made complaint before the censors and had the mutineers degraded. Then from the senators he secured an enactment that arrears of their wages should not be paid. The tribunes of the plebs also carried through a bill with the people on the same matter, so that discipline was maintained bv the joint action of all.^
When Quintus Metellus Macedonicus was cam- paigning in Spain, and five cohorts on one occasion had given way before the enemy, he commanded the soldiers to make their wills, and then sent them back to recover the lost ground, threatening that they should not be received in camp except after victory.^
The Senate ordered the consul Publius Valerius to lead the army, which had been defeated near the river Siris, to Saepinum, to construct a camp there, and to spend the winter under canvas.®
When his soldiers had been disgracefully routed,
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