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ambassadors at the same time pointed to their strongholds founded upon
precipices; and boasted that they had thither conveyed their wives and
parents; and threatened a war intricate, hazardous and bloody.
Sabinus amused them with gentle answers till he could draw together his
army; while Pomponius Labeo was advancing with a legion from Moesia, and
King Rhoemetalces with a body of Thracians who had not renounced their
allegiance. With these, and what forces he had of his own, he marched
towards the foe, now settled in the passes of the forest: some more bold
presented themselves upon the hills: against the last, the Roman general
first bent his forces in battle, and without difficulty drove them thence,
but with small slaughter of the Barbarians, because of their immediate
refuge. Here he straight raised an encampment, and with a stout band took
possession of a hill, which extended with an even narrow ridge to the next
fortress, which was garrisoned by a great host of armed men and rabble:
and as the most resolute were, in the way of the nation, rioting without
the fortification in dances and songs, he forthwith despatched against
them his select archers.
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