§1.26.1Ita ancipiti proelio diu atque acriter pugnatum est.
Thus, in a battle on two fronts, they fought long and fiercely.
Diutius cum sustinere nostrorum impetus non possent, alteri se, ut coeperant, in montem receperunt, alteri ad impedimenta et carros suos se contulerunt.
When they could no longer withstand the onslaught of our men, the one party retreated to the mountain, as they had begun to do, while the other betook themselves to their baggage and wagons.
§1.26.2Nam hoc toto proelio, cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit, aversum hostem videre nemo potuit.
For in this entire battle, although they fought from the seventh hour until evening, no one could see an enemy with his back turned.
§1.26.3Ad multam noctem etiam ad impedimenta pugnatum est, propterea quod pro vallo carros obiecerunt et e loco superiore in nostros venientes tela coiciebant et non nulli inter carros rotasque mataras ac tragulas subiciebant nostrosque vulnerabant.
Even until late at night, they fought at the baggage, because they had drawn up their wagons as a rampart, and from the higher ground they kept casting weapons at our men as they came up, and some kept thrusting Gallic pikes and light javelins between the wagons and the wheels, wounding our men.
§1.26.4Diu cum esset pugnatum, impedimentis castrisque nostri potiti sunt.
When they had fought for a long time, our men gained possession of the baggage and the camp.
Ibi Orgetorigis filia atque unus e filiis captus est.
There, the daughter of Orgetorix and one of his sons were captured.
§1.26.5Ex eo proelio circiter hominum milia CXXX superfuerunt eaque tota nocte continenter ierunt [nullam partem noctis itinere intermisso]; in fines Lingonum die quarto pervenerunt, cum et propter vulnera militum et propter sepulturam occisorum nostri [triduum morati] eos sequi non potuissent.
About a hundred and thirty thousand men survived that battle and marched continuously through that whole night [no part of the night being interrupted in their march]; they reached the borders of the Lingones on the fourth day, since our men, [having delayed for three days] both because of the wounds of the soldiers and for the burial of the slain, had been unable to pursue them.
§1.26.6Caesar ad Lingonas litteras nuntiosque misit, ne eos frumento neve alia re iuvarent: qui si iuvissent, se eodem loco quo Helvetios habiturum.
Caesar sent letters and messengers to the Lingones, warning them not to assist them with grain or any other thing: declaring that if they should assist them, he would regard them in the same light as the Helvetii.
Ipse triduo intermisso cum omnibus copiis eos sequi coepit.
He himself, after an interval of three days, began to pursue them with all his forces.