Reperti sunt complures nostri milites, qui in phalangas insilirent et scuta manibus revellerent et desuper vulnerarent.
-- C. Iulii Caesaris De Bello Gallico I, 5
Many of our soldiers were seen leaping over the (enemy) phalanges, tearing away the shields with their hands and injuring from above.
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Additus a. d. XVII Kal. Oct., MMDCCLXXVI a. U. c.