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Excerpt from The History of Rome, Vol. 6 of 6
II. When the Roman army firl't marched to the lake Timavus, the Ifirians took poft behind a hill, where they could not be feen; and, omits march thence, followed it through bye-ways, watching attentively for any opportunity that might give them an advantage; nor did any thing that was done, either on land or fea, efcape their obfervation. When they law the weaknefs of the advanced guards, round the camp of the Romans, and that the market place was filled with an unarmed crowd, who carried on the traffic with the camp, and that they had not fortified them felves, either by works on land, or by the help of their (hips, they made an allault on two of their polls at once, the Placentine cohort, and the two compa nies ofthefecond legion. A morning fog concealed their defign; and, when this began to difperfe, as the fun grew warm, thelight, piercing through it.
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