§22.19.1principio aestatis, qua haec gerebantur, in Hispania quoque terra marique coeptum bellum est.
At the beginning of the summer in which these events were taking place, war began in Spain also, both by land and by sea.
§22.19.2Hasdrubal ad eum navium numerum quem a fratre instructum paratumque acceperat, §22.19.3decem adiectis quadraginta navium classem Himilconi tradit, atque ita Carthagine profectus navis prope terram, exercitum in litore ducebat paratus confligere, quacumque parte copiarum hostis occurrisset.
Hasdrubal, to that number of ships which he had received, built and equipped, from his brother, having added ten, handed over a fleet of forty ships to Himilco, and having thus set out from Carthage, he kept the ships near the land and led the army along the shore, ready to engage in battle whichever part of his forces the enemy should encounter.
§22.19.4Cn. Scipio postquam movisse ex hibernis hostem audivit, primo idem consilii fuit; deinde minus terra propter ingentem famam novorum auxiliorum concurrere ausus, delecto milite ad naves inposito quinque et triginta navium classe ire obviam hosti pergit.
When Gnaeus Scipio heard that the enemy had moved from his winter quarters, he was at first of the same mind; then, not daring to fight on land because of the immense rumor of new auxiliary forces, he embarked selected soldiers on the ships and proceeded with a fleet of thirty-five ships to meet the enemy.
§22.19.5altero ab Tarracone die adstationem decem milia passuum distantem ab ostio Hiberi amnis pervenit.
On the second day from Tarraco, he reached an anchorage ten miles distant from the mouth of the river Hiberus.
inde duae Massiliensium speculatoriae praemissae rettulere classem Punicam stare in ostio fluminis castraque in ripa posita.
Thence two scouting vessels of the Massilians, sent ahead, brought back word that the Punic fleet was riding at the mouth of the river and that their camp had been pitched on the bank.
§22.19.6itaque ut inprovidos incautosque universe simul effuso terrore opprimeret, sublatis ancoris ad hostem vadit.
Therefore, in order to overwhelm them while unprepared and off their guard by spreading terror all at once, he weighed anchor and advanced toward the enemy.
multas et locis altis positas turris Hispania habet, quibus et speculis et propugnaculis adversus latrones utuntur.
Spain has many towers built on high places, which they use both as watchtowers and as bulwarks against brigands.
§22.19.7inde primo conspectis hostium navibus datum signum Hasdrubali est, tumultusque prius in terra et castris quam ad mare et ad naves est ortus, nondum aut pulsu remorum strepituque alio nautico exaudito aut aperientibus classem promunturiis, §22.19.8cum repente eques alius super alium ab Hasdrubale missus vagos in litore quietosque in tentoriis suis, nihil minus quam hostem aut proelium eo die expectantis, conscendere naves propere atque arma capere iubet: classem Romanamiam haud procul portu esse.
From these, when the enemy's ships were first sighted, the signal was given to Hasdrubal, and a tumult arose on land and in the camp before it did at sea and among the ships, while as yet neither the beat of oars nor any other nautical noise had been heard, nor had the promontories revealed the fleet; when suddenly horseman after horseman, sent by Hasdrubal, ordered those who were wandering on the shore and resting in their tents, expecting nothing less than the enemy or a battle on that day, to embark quickly on the ships and take up arms: that the Roman fleet was already not far from the harbor.
haec equites dimissi passim imperabant; §22.19.9mox Hasdrubal ipse cum omni exercitu aderat, varioque omnia tumultu strepunt ruentibus in naves simul remigibus militibusque fugientium magis e terra quam in pugnam euntium modo.
These orders the dispatched horsemen were commanding far and wide; soon Hasdrubal himself was present with the whole army, and everything resounded with a confused tumult as the rowers and soldiers rushed simultaneously into the ships, more in the manner of men fleeing from the land than of those going into battle.
§22.19.10vixdum omnes conscenderant, cum alii resolutis oris in ancoras evehuntur, alii, ne quid teneat, ancoralia incidunt, raptimque omnia ac praepropere agendo militum apparatu nautica ministeria impediuntur, trepidatione nautarum capere et aptare arma miles prohibetur.
Scarcely had all embarked when some, having untied the stern-cables, drifted toward the anchors, others cut the anchor cables so that nothing might hold them back, and by doing everything in haste and headlong hurry, the duties of the sailors were impeded by the gear of the soldiers, and because of the confusion of the sailors, the soldiers were prevented from taking up and fitting their arms.
§22.19.11et iam Romanus non adpropinquabat modo, sed derexerat etiam in pugnam naves.
And now the Roman was not only approaching but had even drawn up his ships for battle.
itaque non ab hoste et proelio magis Poeni quam suomet ipsi tumultu turbati et temptata verius pugna quam inita in fugam averterunt classem.
Therefore, the Carthaginians, thrown into confusion not more by the enemy and the combat than by their own tumult, and having rather attempted than entered upon a battle, turned their fleet to flight.
§22.19.12et cum adversi amnis os lato agmini et tum multis simul venientibus haud sane intrabile esset, in litus passim naves egerunt, atque alii vadis alii sicco litore excepti partim armati partim inermes ad instructam per litus aciem suorum perfugere; duae tamen primo concursu captae erant Punicae naves, quattuor suppressae.
And since the mouth of the opposing river was by no means passable for so wide a line of ships, especially with so many coming up at the same time, they ran their ships aground here and there on the shore; and some reaching the shallows, others the dry land, they fled, some armed and some unarmed, to the battle-line of their comrades drawn up along the shore; two Punic ships, however, had been captured at the first onset, and four sunk.