Ladders had been placed beforehand in this passage against the wall of cliff; and, protected by the windings of the gaps, the velites were able to seize and mount them before being overtaken.
To avoid infection, the corpses of the velites had been speedily buried; and the position of the graves was no longer visible.
You ought to have made your ranks twice as deep, avoided exposing the velites against the phalanx, and given free passage to the elephants.
His nephew, Captain Leon de Courcelles, was one of the famous Velites of the Guard.
A starving man is no better than a starving dog when he is famished, and the Velites were becoming but animals these latter days.
I told him that the Velites had not passed that way before, having taken the northern road to Moscow.
IX We returned to the bivouac of the Velites that night, and there told our story.
Impossible to believe that a treasure of half a million francs and one of the most beautiful women in Russia were locked up in that gloomy place, and we, Velites and hussars of the Grand Army, impotent to get one or the other.
He was marching with other officers of the Veliteswhen I came up, and I perceived at once that he had made a captive.
This was upon an order of General Roguet himself, who told me that every surgeon would be needed upon the other side to help the sick across, and that I must rejoin our own company of Velites as quickly as might be.
There was another surgeon from the Velites of the company, but he was a very young man, and the situation had unnerved him.
I myself set out with the Velites about an hour after His Majesty had left, upon a road whereon familiar scenes were soon to be encountered.
I had hoped to enter Moscow with my nephew Leon, who is one of the Velites of the Guard.
The Velites were light-armed troops, employed on out-post duty, and mingled with the horsemen.
He withdrew his skirmishers through the intervals of the maniples, and then distributed them equally between the two wings on rear of his line, first the velites and behind them the cavalry.
The Iberians having at once made an onslaught upon the cattle, he despatched some of the velites against them.
His whole army having been got ready for battle, he confined the main body within his camp, but sent out the velitesand some picked men of the infantry with orders to assault the brow of the hill and attack the enemy’s pickets.
They were in line, and the cavalry and velites got the word turn, left wheel, and the infantry right wheel and forward, i.
For the cavalry and velites on the right wing forming to the right into line were trying to outflank the enemy, but the infantry formed on the contrary to the left.
They stationed the velites in the van, and behind them the legionaries, many maniples deep, while they divided the cavalry between the two wings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "velites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
