He recommended it therefore to the consul, if he thought proper, to send up one or other of the two legions, before the army suffered disgrace.
The second legion was accordingly sent, and the Extraordinaries were ordered to retire.

By the legion coming up, with its men fresh, and the ranks complete in their numbers, the fight was renewed with vigour.

The left wing was withdrawn out of the action, and the right took its place in the van.

The intense heat of the sun discomposed the Gauls, whose bodies were very ill qualified to endure it: nevertheless, keeping their ranks close, and leaning sometimes on each other, sometimes on their bucklers, they withstood the attack of the Romans; which, when the consul observed, in order to break their ranks, he ordered Caius Livius Salinator, commander of the allied cavalry, to charge them at full speed, and the legionary cavalry to remain in reserve.

This tempest of cavalry first confused and disordered, and at length entirely broke the line of the Gauls; yet it did not make them fly.