§8.19.1Cum dispositis turmis in vicem rari proeliarentur neque ab lateribus circumveniri suos paterentur, erumpunt ceteri Correo proeliante ex silvis.
While our men, having stationed their troops, fought in turn and in small numbers, and did not allow their own men to be surrounded on the flanks, the rest of the enemy burst out of the woods while Correus was fighting.
§8.19.2Fit magna contentione diversum proelium.
A diverse battle was joined with great struggle.
Quod cum diutius pari Marte iniretur, paulatim ex silvis instructa multitudo procedit peditum, quae nostros coegit cedere equites.
When this had been carried on for a rather long time with equal fortune, gradually an organized multitude of infantry advanced from the woods, which forced our cavalry to give way.
Quibus celeriter subveniunt levis armaturae pedites, quos ante legiones missos docui, turmisque nostrorum interpositi constanter proeliantur.
To them, the light-armed infantry, whom I have previously mentioned as having been sent ahead of the legions, quickly brought assistance, and being interspersed among our troops, they fought resolutely.
§8.19.3Pugnatur aliquamdiu pari contentione; deinde, ut ratio postulabat proeli, qui sustinuerant primos impetus insidiarum hoc ipso fiunt superiores, quod nullum ab insidiantibus imprudentes acceperant detrimentum.
The battle was maintained for some time with equal contention; then, as the nature of the battle required, those who had withstood the first charges of the ambush became superior by this very fact, that they, not being caught off guard, had received no damage from the ambushers.
§8.19.4Accedunt propius interim legiones, crebrique eodem tempore et nostris et hostibus nuntii adferuntur, imperatorem instructis copiis adesse.
Meanwhile, the legions approached nearer, and at the same time frequent reports were brought to both our men and the enemy that the commander was at hand with his forces drawn up.
§8.19.5Qua re cognita praesidio cohortium confisi nostri acerrime proeliantur, ne, si tardius rem gessissent, victoriae gloriam communicasse cum legionibus viderentur; §8.19.6hostes concidunt animis atque itineribus diversis fugam quaerunt.
Finding this to be the case, our men, relying on the support of the cohorts, fought most fiercely, lest, if they should act too slowly, they should seem to have shared the glory of the victory with the legions; the enemy lost heart and sought flight by different routes.
Nequiquam: nam quibus difficultatibus locorum Romanos claudere voluerant, eis ipsi tenebantur.
In vain: for they themselves were hemmed in by the very difficulties of the ground by which they had wished to shut in the Romans.
§8.19.7Victi tamen perculsique maiore parte amissa consternati profugiunt partim silvis petitis, partim flumine (qui tamen in fuga a nostris acriter insequentibus conficiuntur), §8.19.8cum interim nulla calamitate victus Correus excedere proelio silvasque petere aut invitantibus nostris ad deditionem potuit adduci, quin fortissime proeliando compluresque vulnerando cogeret elatos iracundia victores in se tela conicere.
Nevertheless, defeated and dismayed, having lost the greater part of their men, they fled in panic, partly by seeking the woods, partly the river (who, however, were slain in their flight by our men eagerly pursuing them); while in the meantime, Correus, overcome by no disaster, could neither be induced to withdraw from the battle and seek the woods, nor, though our men invited him, to surrender, but, by fighting most courageously and wounding many, forced the victors, inflamed with anger, to hurl their javelins at him.