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It told how the Imperial forces had met a far superior number of Turks at Lippa, and had sustained a terrible defeat, with the loss of their General Veterani, how Captain Archfield had received a scimitar wound in the cheek while trying to save his commander, but had afterwards dashed forward among the enemy, recovered the colours of the regiment, and by a desperate charge of his fellow-soldiers, who were devotedly attached to him, had been borne off the field with a severe wound on the left side.

On the way back we passed a Battalion of Alpini marching up, many of them very young. I thought of the Duke of Aosta's latest message to the undefeated Third Army: "A voi veterani del Carso, ed a voi, giovani soldati, fioritura della perenne primavera italica." Splendid Alpini! They are never false to their regimental motto, "di quì non si passa!" They never fail.

Nevertheless, Mustapha and his vizier took the field before the imperialists could commence the operations of the campaign, passed the Danube, took Lippa and Titul by assault, stormed the camp of general Veterani, who was posted at Lugos with seven thousand men, and who lost his life in the action.

Non sane alias exercitatior magisque in ambiguo Britannia fuit: trucidati veterani, incensae coloniae, intercepti exercitus; tum de salute, mox de victoria, certavere.

The third person of the imperative is for the most part avoided in ordinary language; and the pres. subj. is used in its stead. Nostras manus, i.e. those ready to join us and aid our arms, viz. Doed. renders, just as certainly as. Vacua. Destitute of soldiers. Senum, sc. veterani et emeriti. Cf. note, 15. Aegra==disaffected. Cf. Hic dux, etc. In hoc campo est. Depends on this battle field.

Camalodunum, Londinium and Verulamium. Cf. Ann. 14, 33, where however the historian does not expressly say, the last two were burned. In ambiguo==ambigua, in a critical state. Alterius, sc. ducis. Artem et usum. Military science and experience. Summa ... cessit. The primary meaning of cedere is to go. See Freund sub v. Juveni, sc. Tum, sc. while veterani trucidarentur, etc.