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Zorodocus, whose tombs adjoined the temple, and Pyrrhus the son of
Achilles. As to the Gauls, a wild panic hurried them in disorder to
their camp, which they attained only with great difficulty,
overwhelmed by the arrows of the Greeks, and by the fall of
enormous rocks, which rolled over upon them from the summit of
Parnassus. In the ranks of the besiegers, the loss was doubtless
considerable.

"To that disastrous day succeeded, for the Kimry-Gauls, a night not
less terrible; the cold was excessive, and snow fell in abundance;
besides, fragments of rock falling incessantly in their camp, which
was situated too near the mountain, crushed the soldiers not by one
or two at a time, but by bodies of thirty and forty, as often as
they assembled to maintain guard or to seek repose. The sun no
sooner rose, than the Greeks who were within the town made a
vigorous sally, whilst those who were in the country fell upon the
rear of the enemy. At the same time, the Phocians, crossing the
snow by paths known but to themselves, took them in flank, and
assailed them with arrows and stones, without exposing themselves
to the slightest danger. Hemmed in on all sides, discouraged, and,
moreover, extremely incommoded by the cold, which had cut off many
of their number during the night, the Gauls began to yield. They
were sustained for some time by the intrepidity of the chosen band
who combated around the Brenn, and acted as his guard. The
strength, the stature, the courage of that guard, struck the Greeks
with astonishment. In the end, the Brenn having been dangerously
wounded, those brave men dreamed only of making a rampart of their
bodies for him, and of carrying him from the field. The chiefs then
gave the signal of retreat, and to prevent the wounded from falling
into the hands of the enemy, they caused those who were not in a
condition to follow, to be put to death. The army halted when the
night overtook it.

"The first watch of that second night had hardly commenced, when
the soldiers who were on guard imagined that they heard the tumult
of a night march, and the distant tramp of horses. The darkness,
already profound, did not permit them to discover their mistake;
they gave the alarm, and cried out that they were surprised--that
the enemy was u