OBSERVATION.
WHich strange alteration lively describeth the force of ••ovelty,* 1.1 and the effectuall power of unexpected adventures: for in the first course of their proceeding, wherein the Romans defended the Camp, and the Galles charged it by assault, the victory held constant with the Galles, and threatned death and mortality to the Ro∣mans. Neither had they any means to recover hope of better successe, but by trying another way; which so much the more amazed the Galles, in that they had vehemently apprehended an opinion of victory, by a set fight continuing the space of six houres, without any likelihood of contrariety or alteration. Which practise of fru∣strating a design intended by an indirect and contrary answer, served the Romans oftentimes to great advantage; as besides this present exam∣ple, in this commentary we shall afterward read, how Titurius Sabinus defeated the Unelli with the same stratagem, and overthrew them by eru∣ption and sallying out, when they expected no∣thing but a defensive resistance from the rampier. From whence a Commander may learn to avoid two contrary inconveniences, according as the quality of the warre shall offer occasion: first (if other things be answerable, which a judicious eye will easily discover) that a sally made out at divers ports of a hold, will much mitigate the heat of a charge, and controll the fury of an E∣nemy. And on the other side, he that besiegeth any place, what advantage soever he hath of the defendant, may much better assure himself of good fortune, if he appoint certain troups in rea∣dinesse to receive the charge of any eruption, that the rest that are busily imployed in the assault may provide to answer it without disorder or confusion. Which order if the Galles had taken, they had not in likelihood so often been de∣ceived.