§7.25.1Cum in omnibus locis consumpta iam reliqua parte noctis pugnaretur, semperque hostibus spes victoriae redintegraretur, eo magis, quod deustos pluteos turrium videbant nec facile adire apertos ad auxiliandum animadvertebant, semperque ipsi recentes defessis succederent omnemque Galliae salutem in illo vestigio temporis positam arbitrarentur, accidit inspectantibus nobis quod dignum memoria visum praetereundum non existimavimus.
When the battle was still being fought in all places, the remaining part of the night having already been spent, and the hope of victory was constantly renewed for the enemy—all the more because they saw that the breastworks of the towers were burnt down, and noticed that it was not easy for our men, being exposed, to go to assist, and because they themselves with fresh men were constantly succeeding those who were fatigued, and believed that the entire safety of Gaul depended on that single moment of time—there occurred, while we were looking on, an event which seemed worthy of memory and which we did not think should be passed over.
§7.25.2Quidam ante portam oppidi Gallus per manus sebi ac picis traditas glebas in ignem e regione turris proiciebat: scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit.
A certain Gaul before the gate of the town was throwing into the fire opposite the tower lumps of tallow and pitch passed to him from hand to hand; having been pierced through his right side by a scorpio, he fell lifeless.
§7.25.3Hunc ex proximis unus iacentem transgressus eodem illo munere fungebatur; §7.25.4eadem ratione ictu scorpionis exanimato alteri successit tertius et tertio quartus, nec prius ille est a propugnatoribus vacuus relictus locus quam restincto aggere atque omni ex parte summotis hostibus finis est pugnandi factus.
One of those nearest him, stepping over him as he lay, performed that same duty; in the same manner, when the second was killed by a blow from a scorpio, a third succeeded the second, and a fourth succeeded the third, nor was that spot left vacant of defenders until, the mound being extinguished and the enemy repulsed from every side, an end was put to the fighting.