Roman cavalry wings

Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War primary

More notes discuss Roman battle deployment around Jugurtha’s position—fronts becoming flanks, cavalry on wings, enemy ignorance, fatigue, and how struggle was carried out under the law of the text.

[165] Rendering it uncertain--*Incerti.* Presenting such an appearance that a spectator could not be certain what they were. [166] He drew up these in the right wing--in three lines--_In dextero latere triplicibus subsidiis aciem instruxit._ In the other passages in which Sallust has the word *subsidia* (Cat. c. 59), he uses it for *the lines behind the front.* Thus he says of Catiline, _Octo cohortes in fronte cons…