STRATAGEMS, III. x. 5-9
Being encountered by those lying in wait for them near the walls, and beset in the rear by those whom they had just been pursuing, they were caught between two forces and so cut to pieces. ^
Viriathus, on one occasion, having placed men in ambush, sent a few others to drive off the flocks of the Segobrigenses. When the latter rushed out in great numbers to defend their flocks and followed up the marauders, who pretended to flee, they were drawn into an ambush and cut to pieces. ^
When LucuUus was put in charge of a garrison of two cohorts at Heraclea, the cavalry of the Scordisci, by pretending to drive ott'the flocks of the inhabitants, provoked a sortie. Then, when LucuUus followed, they drew him into an ambush, feigning flight, and killed him together with eight hundred of his followers.
The Athenian general. Chares, when about to attack a city on the coast, hid his fleet behind certaiii promontories and then ordered his swiftest ship to sail past the forces of the enemy. At sight of this shi{3, all the forces guarding the harbour darted out in pursuit, whereat Chares sailed in with the rest of his fleet and took possession of the undefended harbour and likewise of the city itself^
On one occasion when Roman troops were block- ading Lilybaeum by land and sea, Barca, general of the Carthaginians in Sicily, ordered a part of his fleet to appear in the offing ready for action. When our men darted out at sight of this, Barca seized the harbour of Lilybaeum with the ships which he had held in hiding.*
- 249 B.C. Of. Polyb. i. 44, where Hannibal, rather than
Barca, is the general.
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