Presently these were down also, or rushing maddened to and fro.
At last the Eastern generals saw and understood.

Orders were shouted and in a mad confusion the scores of thousands who were unharmed, rushed back towards the banks of Nile where our shafts could not reach them.
Here they formed up in their companies and took counsel.

It was soon ended, for all the vast mass of them, preceded by a cloud of archers, began to advance upon the hill.
Now I passed a command to the Ethiopians, of whom so far not one had fallen, to lie low and wait.

On came the glittering multitude of Easterns, gay with purple and gold, their mail and swords shining in the risen sun.

On they came by squadron and by company, more than the eye could number.