Compare 1587 edition: 1 After whoſe deceaſe Man [...]ins Valeus had EEBO page image 42 the chiefeſt charge,Manlius Va|lens inuadeth the Pictes. who bringyng his army foorth to encounter the Pictes that came to ſeeke battell, was fiercely fought withall. Notwith|ſtãding the victory had abidẽ on his ſide, if at the very point there had not come ſuccours to the Picts, (that is to witte) iiij.C. horſemen out of the countrey of Kendall,The Romain [...] are diſcõfited by the Pictes. by whoſe freſh onſet the Romains were diſcõfited and chaſed vnto their campe, there being ſlayne aboue .iij. thouſande of them at that ouerthrowe, and on the Pictes ſide there wanted a twoo thouſande of theyr num|ber at the leaſt.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the ſame time there arriued in Brytain an other Romain captaine to be general in place of Oſtorius now deceaſed,Aulus Didius commeth into Brytaine. his name was Aulus Didius. With him came the .ij. legions afore re|mẽbred. At his firſt cõming ouer he muſtered the old crewes of the Romaine ſouldiers firſt, much blaming them for their negligence in ſuffering the enimies ſo to encreaſe vpõ them, to the great daunger of looſing all that, (through ſlouth and fayntneſſe of courage) whiche lately before in Brytaine had bene wonne and cõquered by high prowes and valiant cõduct of his predeceſſours. In the ende he exhorted them to put away all feare, and fully to determine with themſelues, to recouer againe the honour which they had lately loſt, whiche he ſayde would eaſily be brought to paſſe, if they would take vnto them manful ſto|makes, and obey him and ſuche other as had the gouernaunce and leading of them.