La vie de Plutarque pour les garçons et les filles : être sélectionné vit librement rechaper . e temps, a envoyé une convocation à sa propre armée pour le rejoindre. Quand les troupes sont arrivées, il a traversé le personnel soignant po, et s'est efforcé de garder les barbarbares frominçant les régions au sud de cette rivière. Le Cimbri a décliné son offre de bataille. Ils se méprèrent, ainsi ils l'ont dit, pour les Teutones, mais il est certain qu'ils étaient vraiment ignorants du sort qui avait déchu leurs camarades. En tout cas, ils traitaient ceux qui ont apporté les nouvelles de la défaite très cruellement.Ils ont également envoyé une demande à Marius pour des terres pour eux-mêmes et TH

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Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . e time, sent a summons to his own army tojoin him. When the troops arrived, he crossed theriver Po, and endeavoured to keep the barbarians frominvading the regions south of that river. The Cimbri declined his offer of battle. They werewaiting, so they said, for the Teutones, but it is doubtfulwhether they were really still ignorant of the fate whichhad befallen their comrades. At any rate, they treatedthose who brought the news of the defeat very cruelly.They also sent a demand to Marius for lands for them-selves and their brethren, and for a sufficient numberof towns for them to dwell in. Marius asked theambassadors who brought this demand whom theymeant by their brethren. He was told that they werethe Teutones, whereupon all the Romans who werepresent at the interview burst out into laughter.Marius sneeringly answered, You need not worryabout your brethren. They have land which theyshall hold for ever, for we have given it them. Theambassadors understood the point of this reply, and. MARIUS AND THE AMBASSADORS OF THE CIMBRI. CAIUS MARIUS 255 began to abuse him and to threaten him with thevengeance of themselves, the Cimbri, and of theTeutones also when they should arrive. They arewith us already, said Marius, and it is only fittingthat you should embrace your brethren before youdepart. So saying, he ordered that the kings of theTeutones, who had been captured in their flight amongstthe Alps, should be brought forward in chains. After the ambassadors had reported this interviewto their countrymen, the Cimbri at once advancedagainst Marius, who, however, remained quietly in hiscamp. It was at this time, so it is said, that he intro-duced an alteration in the spears used by the Romans.Previously the head had been fastened to the woodenshaft by two iron nails. Marius ordered that one ofthese should be withdrawn and a wooden peg, whichwould be easily broken, put in its place. He gave thisorder,

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