[63] On the appearance of an enemy, they threw aside their baggage, and by easy and rapid evolutions converted the column of march into an order of battle.

[64] The slingers and archers skirmished in the front; the auxiliaries formed the first line, and were seconded or sustained by the strength of the legions; the cavalry covered the flanks, and the military engines were placed in the rear.
[Footnote 62: Cicero in Tusculan.ii.37, [15.]--Joseph.

de Bell.

Jud.
l.iii.5, Frontinus, iv.

1.] [Footnote 63: Vegetius, i.9.See Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xxv.p.