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Instinctos ruentesque ita disposuit, ut peditum auxilia, quae octo millia erant, mediam aciem firmarent, equitum tria millia cornibus affunderentur: legiones pro vallo stetere, ingens victoriae decus citra Romanum sanguinem bellanti, et auxilium, si pellerentur.
Aciem firmarent==aciem firmam facerent, of which use there are examples not only in T., but in Liv. Dr. Affunderentur. Were attached to. Pro vallo. On the rampart; properly on the fore part of it. Cf. note, H. 1, 29. Ingens decus. In app. with legiones stetere. Bellanti, sc. Agricolae. Al. bellandi. In speciem. Cf. in suam famam, 8, and in jactationem, 5. Aequo.
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