committed the most atrocious and bestial outrages.  For instance, they hung up naked the noblest and most distinguished women, cut off their breasts and sewed them to their mouths, to make the victims appear to be eating them.  After that they impaled them on sharp skewers run perpendicularly the whole length of the body.  All this they did to the accompaniment of sacrifices, banquets, and exhibitions of insolence in all of their sacred places, but chiefly in the grove of Andate,—­that being the name of their personification of Victory, to whom they paid the most excessive reverence.

[Sidenote:—­8—­] It happened that Paulinus had already brought Mona to terms; hence on learning of the disaster in Britain he at once set sail thither from Mona.  He was unwilling to risk a conflict with the barbarians immediately, for he feared their numbers and their frenzy; therefore he was for postponing the battle to a more convenient season.  But as he grew short of food and the barbarians did not desist from pressing him hard, he was compelled, though contrary to his plan, to enter into an engagement with them.  Buduica herself, heading an army of about twenty-three myriads of men, rode on a chariot and assigned the rest to their several stations.  Now Paulinus could not extend his phalanx the width of her whole line, for, even if the men had been drawn up only one deep, they would not have stretched far enough, so inferior were they in numbers:  nor did he dare to join battle with one compact force, for fear he should be surrounded and cut down.  Accordingly, he separated his army into three divisions in order to fight at several points at once, and he made each of the divisions so strong that it could not easily be broken through.  While ordering and arranging his men he likewise exhorted them, saying: 

[Sidenote:—­9—­] “Up, fellow-soldiers!  Up, men of Rome!  Show these pests how much even in misfortune we surpass them.  It is a shame for you now to lose ingloriously what but a short while ago you gained by your valor.  Often have we ourselves and also our fathers with far fewer numbers than we have at the present conquered far more numerous antagonists.  Fear not the host of them or their rebellion:  their boldness rests on nothing better than headlong rashness unaided by arms and exercise.  Fear not because they have set on fire a few cities:  they took these not by force nor after a battle, but one was betrayed and the other abandoned.  Do you now exact from them the proper penalty for these deeds, that so they may learn by actual experience what they undertook when they wronged such men as us.”