Accordingly, riding up in person from the van, he sought to ward off the enemy, and ran great risks in contending with men who were trained to fight and were inspired with high courage.
Edition :
Plutarch Lives IX: Demetrius and Antony, Pyrrhus and Caius Marius, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 101), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1968 (first ed. 1920).
Remark :
perpetrator: Pyrrhus' victory is described in 24.3. victim: Mamertini is only the self-assigned name these mercenaries of "former Oscan" origin gave themselves, see: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/mamertini-e719960?s.num=0&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.brill-s-new-pauly&s.q=mamertini date: The date is taken from the New Pauly. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pyrrhus-e1015710
