To these exhortations a dreadful execration was added against any one who should be diverted from this purpose by hope or faint-heartedness.

Then throwing open the gates, they rushed out at a rapid pace and with the utmost impetuosity.

Nor was there any guard sufficiently strong opposed to them; for there could be nothing that was less apprehended than that they would have the courage to sally from their walls.

A very few troops of horse, and the light-armed, hastily sent out of the camp for that purpose, opposed them.

The battle was furious and spirited, rather than steady and regular in any degree.