§23.40.1et in Sardinia res per T. Manlium praetorem administrari coeptae, quae omissae erant, postquam Q. Mucius praetor gravi morbo est inplicitus. §23.40.2Manlius navibus longis ad Caralis subductis navalibusque sociis armatis, ut terra rem gereret, et a praetore exercitu accepto duo et viginti milia peditum, mille ducentos equites confecit. §23.40.3cum his equitum peditumque copiis profectus in agrum hostium haud procul ab Hampsicorae castris castra posuit.
In Sardinia also, the operations which had been neglected after the praetor Quintus Mucius was seized with a severe illness, began to be administered by the praetor Titus Manlius. Manlius, having hauled the warships ashore at Caralis and armed the naval allies so that he might conduct operations on land, and having received the army from the praetor, made up twenty-two thousand infantry and twelve hundred cavalry. Having set out with these forces of cavalry and infantry, he pitched camp in the enemy's territory, not far from the camp of Hampsicora.
Hampsicora tum forte profectus erat in Pellitos Sardos ad iuventutem armandam, qua copias augeret; §23.40.4filius nomine Hostus castris praeerat.
Hampsicora happened then to have gone among the Pelliti Sardi to arm their youth in order to increase his forces; his son, Hostus by name, was in command of the camp.
is adulescentia ferox temere proelio inito fusus fugatusque.
The latter, headstrong by reason of his youth, rashly engaged in battle and was routed and put to flight.
ad tria milia Sardorum eo proelio caesa, octingenti ferme vivi capti; §23.40.5alius exercitus primo per agros silvasque fuga palatus, dein, quo ducem fugisse fama erat, ad urbem nomine Cornum, caput eius regionis, confugit; §23.40.6debellatumque eo proelio in Sardinia esset, ni classis Punica cum duce Hasdrubale, quae tempestate deiecta ad Baliaris erat, in tempore ad spem rebellandi advenisset. §23.40.7Manlius post famam adpulsae Punicae classis Caralis se recepit: ea occasio Hampsicorae data est Poeno se iungendi. §23.40.8Hasdrubal, copiis in terram expositis et classe remissa Carthaginem, duce Hampsicora ad sociorum populi Romani agrum populandum profectus Caralis perventurus erat, ni Manlius obvio exercitu ab effusa eum populatione continuisset. §23.40.9primo castra castris modico intervallo sunt obiecta; deinde per procursationes levia certamina vario eventu inita;
About three thousand of the Sardinians were slain in that battle, and nearly eight hundred were taken alive; the rest of the army, having at first wandered in flight through the fields and woods, then fled to a city named Cornus, the capital of that region, where there was a report that their leader had escaped; and the war in Sardinia would have been finished by that battle, had not the Carthaginian fleet under the command of Hasdrubal, which had been driven by a storm to the Balearic Islands, arrived in time to revive the hope of rebellion. Manlius, after the report of the arrival of the Carthaginian fleet, withdrew to Caralis; this opportunity was given to Hampsicora to join the Carthaginian. Hasdrubal, having landed his troops and sent the fleet back to Carthage, set out under the guidance of Hampsicora to ravage the territory of the allies of the Roman people, and would have reached Caralis, had not Manlius met him with his army and kept him from widespread devastation. At first, the camps were pitched facing each other at a moderate distance; then, light skirmishes were engaged in through sallies with varying success; finally, they came down to a regular battle-line.
postremo descensum in aciem. signis conlatis iusto proelio per quattuor horas pugnatum. §23.40.10diu pugnam ancipitem Poeni Sardis facile vinci adsuetis, fecerunt; postremo et ipsi, cum omnia circa strage ac fuga Sardorum repleta essent, fusi; §23.40.11ceterum terga dantes circumducto cornu, quo pepulerat Sardos, inclusit Romanus.
With standards joined, they fought a pitched battle for four hours. For a long time, the Carthaginians made the battle doubtful, though the Sardinians were accustomed to being easily conquered; at last, they too were routed, when everything around was filled with the slaughter and flight of the Sardinians; but as they turned their backs, the Roman hemmed them in by wheeling around the wing with which he had routed the Sardinians. The result was then a slaughter rather than a battle.
§23.40.12caedes inde magis quam pugna fuit. duodecim milia hostium caesa Sardorum simul Poenorumque, ferme tria milia et septingenti capti et signa militaria septem et viginti.
Twelve thousand of the enemy, both Sardinians and Carthaginians, were slain, nearly three thousand seven hundred were captured, along with twenty-seven military standards.