They sallied out, therefore, in a body from the camp, dancing according to their custom.

Their sudden boldness terrified the enemy, who a little before had been the assailants.

Hasdrubal therefore drew off his troops to a tolerably steep eminence, and secured further by having a river between it and the enemy.

Here the parties of light-armed troops which had been sent in advance, and the horse which had been dispersed about, he called in to join him.

But not thinking himself sufficiently secured by the eminence or the river, he fortified his camp completely with a rampart.