§3.110.1τῇ δʼ ἐπαύριον ἀναζεύξαντες ἦγον τὴν δύναμιν οὗ τοὺς πολεμίους ἤκουον στρατοπεδεύειν.
On the following day, having broken camp, they led their force to the place where they heard the enemy was encamped.
δευτεραῖοι δʼ ἐπιβαλόντες παρενέβαλον, περὶ πεντήκοντα σταδίους ἀποσχόντες τῶν πολεμίων.
Arriving on the second day, they encamped at a distance of about fifty stades from the enemy.
§3.110.2ὁ μὲν οὖν Λεύκιος συνθεασάμενος ἐπιπέδους καὶ ψιλοὺς ὄντας τοὺς πέριξ τόπους οὐκ ἔφη δεῖν συμβάλλειν ἱπποκρατούντων τῶν πολεμίων, ἀλλʼ ἐπισπᾶσθαι καὶ προάγειν μᾶλλον εἰς τόπους τοιούτους ἐν οἷς τὸ πλέον ἔσται διὰ τῶν πεζικῶν στρατοπέδων ἡ μάχη.
Lucius, therefore, seeing that the surrounding country was flat and open, said that they ought not to engage the enemy, since the enemy was superior in cavalry, but rather draw them on and advance into such places where the battle would be decided chiefly by the infantry forces.
§3.110.3τοῦ δὲ Γαΐου διὰ τὴν ἀπειρίαν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐναντίας ὑπάρχοντος γνώμης, ἦν ἀμφισβήτησις καὶ δυσχρηστία περὶ τοὺς ἡγεμόνας, ὃ πάντων ἐστὶ σφαλερώτατον.
But since Gaius, owing to his inexperience, was of the opposite opinion, there arose dispute and difficulty between the commanders, which is the most dangerous of all things.
§3.110.4τῆς δʼ ἡγεμονίας τῷ Γαΐῳ καθηκούσης εἰς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἡμέραν διὰ τὸ παρὰ μίαν ἐκ τῶν ἐθισμῶν μεταλαμβάνειν τὴν ἀρχὴν τοὺς ὑπάτους, ἀναστρατοπεδεύσας προῆγε, βουλόμενος ἐγγίσαι τοῖς πολεμίοις, πολλὰ διαμαρτυρομένου καὶ κωλύοντος τοῦ Λευκίου.
And as the command devolved upon Gaius for the following day, because the consuls according to custom took the supreme command on alternate days, he broke camp and advanced, wishing to get near the enemy, in spite of Lucius making many protests and trying to prevent him.
§3.110.5ὁ δʼ Ἀννίβας ἀναλαβὼν τοὺς εὐζώνους καὶ τοὺς ἱππεῖς ἀπήντα καὶ προσπεσὼν ἔτι κατὰ πορείαν οὖσι παραδόξως συνεπλέκετο καὶ πολὺν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐποιεῖτο θόρυβον.
Hannibal, taking his light-armed troops and cavalry, went to meet them, and falling upon them while they were still on the march, engaged them unexpectedly and caused great confusion among them.
§3.110.6οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι τὴν μὲν πρώτην ἐπιφορὰν ἐδέξαντο, προθέμενοί τινας τῶν ἐν τοῖς βαρέσι καθοπλισμοῖς· μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα τοὺς ἀκοντιστὰς καὶ τοὺς ἱππεῖς ἐπαφέντες ἐπροτέρουν κατὰ τὴν ὅλην συμπλοκὴν διὰ τὸ τοῖς μὲν Καρχηδονίοις μηδὲν ἐφεδρεύειν ἀξιόλογον, τοῖς δὲ Ῥωμαίοις ἀναμεμιγμένας τοῖς εὐζώνοις ὁμόσε κινδυνεύειν τινὰς σπείρας.
The Romans indeed sustained the first onset, putting forward some of their heavy-armed soldiers; but after this, sending in their javelin-throwers and cavalry, they had the advantage in the whole encounter, because while the Carthaginians had no reserve of any consequence, the Romans had some cohorts fighting together, mingled with the light-armed troops.
§3.110.7τότε μὲν οὖν ἐπιγενομένης νυκτὸς ἐχωρίσθησαν ἀπʼ ἀλλήλων, οὐ κατὰ τὴν ἐλπίδα τοῖς Καρχηδονίοις ἐκβάσης τῆς ἐπιθέσεως·
For the time being, then, as night came on, they separated from each other, the issue of the attack not having turned out according to the expectation of the Carthaginians.
§3.110.8εἰς δὲ τὴν ἐπαύριον ὁ Λεύκιος οὔτε μάχεσθαι κρίνων οὔτε μὴν ἀπάγειν ἀσφαλῶς τὴν στρατιὰν ἔτι δυνάμενος τοῖς μὲν δυσὶ μέρεσι κατεστρατοπέδευσε παρὰ τὸν Αὔφιδον καλούμενον ποταμόν, ὃς μόνος διαρρεῖ τὸν Ἀπεννῖνον — §3.110.9τοῦτο δʼ ἔστιν ὄρος συνεχές, ὃ διείργει πάσας τὰς κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν ῥύσεις, τὰς μὲν εἰς τὸ Τυρρηνικὸν πέλαγος, τὰς δʼ εἰς τὸν Ἀδρίαν· διʼ οὗ ῥέοντα συμβαίνει τὸν Αὔφιδον τὰς μὲν πηγὰς ἔχειν ἐν τοῖς πρὸς τὸ Τυρρηνικὸν κλίμασι τῆς Ἰταλίας, ποιεῖσθαι δὲ τὴν ἐκβολὴν εἰς τὸν Ἀδρίαν — τῷ δὲ τρίτῳ πέραν, §3.110.10ἀπὸ διαβάσεως πρὸς τὰς ἀνατολάς, ἐβάλετο χάρακα, τῆς μὲν ἰδίας παρεμβολῆς περὶ δέκα σταδίους ἀποσχών, τῆς δὲ τῶν ὑπεναντίων μικρῷ πλεῖον, §3.110.11βουλόμενος διὰ τούτων προκαθῆσθαι μὲν τῶν ἐκ τῆς πέραν παρεμβολῆς προνομευόντων, ἐπικεῖσθαι δὲ τοῖς παρὰ τῶν Καρχηδονίων.
On the next day, Lucius, deciding neither to fight nor being able any longer to lead his army away in safety, encamped with two-thirds of his force along the river called Aufidus, which alone flows through the Apennines— this is a continuous chain of mountains which divides all the streams of Italy, some flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea, and others into the Adriatic; flowing through which, the Aufidus happens to have its source in the parts of Italy facing the Tyrrhenian Sea, but makes its discharge into the Adriatic—and with the third part on the opposite bank, to the east of the ford, he threw up an entrenchment, at a distance of about ten stades from his own camp, and a little more from that of the enemy, wishing by this means to protect in front those who went foraging from the camp on the opposite bank, and to harass those of the Carthaginians.