§4.1Conflixerat apud Rhodanum cum P. Cornelio Scipione consule eumque pepulerat.
He had clashed near the Rhone with the consul Publius Cornelius Scipio and had repulsed him.
cum hoc eodem Clastidii apud Padum decernit sauciumque inde ac fugatum dimittit.
With this same man he joined battle at Clastidium near the Po, and sent him away from there wounded and put to flight.
§4.2tertio idem Scipio cum collega Ti. Longo apud Trebiam adversus eum venit.
For the third time, the same Scipio came against him near the Trebia with his colleague Tiberius Longus.
cum iis manum conseruit, utrosque profligavit.
He joined battle with them and routed both.
inde per Ligures Appenninum transiit, petens Etruriam.
From there, he crossed the Apennines through the territory of the Ligurians, heading for Etruria.
§4.3hoc in itinere adeo gravi morbo afficitur oculorum, ut postea numquam dextro aeque bene usus sit.
On this march he was afflicted with so severe a disease of the eyes that afterwards he never used his right eye as well as before.
qua valetudine cum etiamnum premeretur lecticaque ferretur, C. Flaminium consulem apud Trasumennum cum exercitu insidiis circumventum occidit, neque multo post C. Centenium praetorem cum delecta manu saltus occupantem.
While he was still suffering from this illness and was being carried in a litter, he killed the consul Gaius Flaminius near Trasumene, who, along with his army, had been surrounded by an ambush; and not long after, the praetor Gaius Centenius, who with a select band was occupying the mountain passes.
§4.4hinc in Apuliam pervenit.
From here he arrived in Apulia.
ibi obviam ei venerunt duo consules, C. Terentius et L. Aemilius.
There the two consuls, Gaius Terentius and Lucius Aemilius, came to meet him.
utriusque exercitus uno proelio fugavit, Paulum consulem occidit et aliquot praeterea consulares, in eis Cn. Servilium Geminum, qui superiore anno fuerat consul.
In a single battle he put the armies of both to flight, killed the consul Paulus and several other men of consular rank, including Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, who had been consul the year before.