§3.21.1Pugnatum est diu atque acriter, cum Sotiates superioribus victoriis freti in sua virtute totius Aquitaniae salutem positam putarent, nostri autem quid sine imperatore et sine reliquis legionibus adulescentulo duce efficere possent perspici cuperent; tandem confecti vulneribus hostes terga verterunt.
The battle was fought for a long time and fiercely, since the Sotiates, relying on their former victories, believed that the safety of all Aquitania depended on their courage, while our men, on the other hand, desired it to be seen what they could achieve without their commander and without the remaining legions, under a very young leader; at length, exhausted by wounds, the enemy turned their backs.
§3.21.2Quorum magno numero interfecto Crassus ex itinere oppidum Sotiatium oppugnare coepit.
A great number of them having been slain, Crassus began to assault the town of the Sotiates directly from his march.
Quibus fortiter resistentibus vineas turresque egit.
As they resisted courageously, he brought up vineae and towers.
§3.21.3Illi alias eruptione temptata, alias cuniculis ad aggerem vineasque actis (cuius rei sunt longe peritissimi Aquitani, propterea quod multis locis apud eos aerariae secturaeque sunt), ubi diligentia nostrorum nihil his rebus profici posse intellexerunt, legatos ad Crassum mittunt seque in deditionem ut recipiat petunt.
They at one time attempting a sally, at another driving mines to the mound and the vineae (in which art the Aquitani are by far the most skilled, because in many places among them there are copper mines and excavations), when they perceived that by the diligence of our men nothing could be gained by these means, they sent deputies to Crassus and begged that he would receive them into surrender.
Qua re impetrata arma tradere iussi faciunt.
This request being granted, having been ordered to deliver up their arms, they did so.