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| 32 | 47 | Carts should have been View more quotes about brought">brought for their shields; the paga ration last night had been meager and of poor quality; the porridge this morning had been no better than slave gruel; yesterday's column had spent a comfortable night in the village, carousing and sleeping, not in blankets between rowing benches; the best loot had already been seized and hidden, and so on. |
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| 32 | 44 | Thurnock looked at me. |
| 32 | 45 | I shook my head, "No". |
| 32 | 46 | From where we knelt or crouched in the grass, but yards from the road, we could hear the voices of the men in the column, conversing, cursing, bantering, complaining. |
| 32 | 47 | Carts should have been brought for their shields; the paga ration last night had been meager and of poor quality; the porridge this morning had been no better than slave gruel; yesterday's column had spent a comfortable night in the village, carousing and sleeping, not in blankets between rowing benches; the best loot had already been seized and hidden, and so on. |
| 32 | 48 | I had distributed our men carefully. |
| 32 | 49 | Given our numbers, we could not begin to expose the entire column to a simultaneous attack. |
| 32 | 50 | I hoped to cut the column in two, attacking its centrality. |