They must necessarily have very confidently relied upon the fidelity and understanding of these beasts when they entrusted them with the vanguard of a battle, where the least stop they should have made, by reason of the bulk and heaviness of their bodies, and the least fright that should have made them face about upon their own people, had been enough to spoil all:
Partem aliquem belli et euntem in prælia turrim. Gogotik fidatu behar zatekeen ihizi horien sinesmen eta adimenaz, gudu baten zuzendaritza haiei utzirik, egin zuketen geldiketarik xehena, beren gorputzaren handigo eta pisutasunagatik, beren jendeen gainera burua itzularazi zien ikararik xehena, denaren galtzeko aski baitzen;