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... fuit quos primos Numidae inuaserunt; alius confertus equitatus consulem...

Lewis and Short: "[t]o enter violently, move against, rush upon, fall upon, assail, assault, attack, invade (syn. oppugno); constr with in and acc., or simple acc." So the verb takes "in" w. acc. or, as here, a direct object.