The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶408

The favorable instant was improved by the activity of Claudius. He revived the courage of his troops, restored their ranks, and pressed the barbarians on every side. Fifty thousand men are reported to have been slain in the battle of Naissus. Several large bodies of barbarians, covering their retreat with a movable fortification of wagons, retired, or rather escaped, from the field of slaughter.

Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #731 (Milman edition) — public domain
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