§23.46.1nec bene nec male dicta profuerunt ad confirmandos animos.
Neither the good nor the bad words availed to encourage their spirits.
§23.46.2cum omni parte pellerentur, Romanisque crescerent animi non duce solum adhortante, sed Nolanis etiam per clamorem favoris indicem accendentibus ardorem pugnae, terga Poeni dederunt atque in castra conpulsi sunt.
When they were being routed on every side, and the spirits of the Romans were rising, not only with their general encouraging them, but also with the Nolans inflaming the heat of the battle by shouting that indicated their support, the Carthaginians turned their backs and were driven into their camp.
§23.46.3quae oppugnare cupientis milites Romanos Marcellus Nolam reduxit cum magno gaudio et gratulatione etiam plebis, quae ante inclinatior ad Poenos fuerat.
Marcellus led back to Nola the Roman soldiers, who were eager to assault this camp, amid great joy and congratulation even of the common people, who had previously been more inclined to the Carthaginians.
§23.46.4hostium plus quinque milia caesa eo die, vivi capti sescenti et signa militaria undeviginti et duo elephanti, quattuor in acie occisis; §23.46.5Romanorum minus mille interfecti.
On that day more than five thousand of the enemy were slain, six hundred captured alive, and nineteen military standards and two elephants taken, four having been killed in the battle line; Fewer than a thousand of the Romans were killed.
posterum diem indutiis tacitis sepeliendo utrimque caesos in acie consumpserunt.
The next day, under a tacit truce, they spent in burying those on both sides who had been slain in the battle line.
spolia hostium Marcellus, Vulcano votum, cremavit.
Marcellus burned the spoils of the enemy, which had been vowed to Vulcan.
§23.46.6tertio post die — ob iram credo aliquam aut spem liberalioris militiae — ducenti septuaginta duo equites, mixti Numidae et Hispani, ad Marcellum transfugerunt.
On the third day after—owing, I believe, to some resentment or the hope of a more liberal service—two hundred and seventy-two horsemen, a mixture of Numidians and Spaniards, deserted to Marcellus.
eorum forti fidelique opera in eo bello usi sunt saepe Romani.
The Romans often made use of their brave and faithful service in that war.
§23.46.7ager Hispanis in Hispania et Numidis in Africa post bellum virtutis causa datus est.
After the war, land was given to the Spaniards in Spain and to the Numidians in Africa on account of their valor.
§23.46.8Hannibal ab Nola remisso in Bruttios Hannone cum quibus venerat copiis, ipse Apuliae hiberna petit circaque Arpos consedit.
Hannibal, having sent Hanno back from Nola to the Bruttii with the forces with which he had come, himself sought the winter quarters of Apulia and settled around Arpi.
§23.46.9Q. Fabius ut profectum in Apuliam Hannibalem audivit, frumento ab Nola Neapolique in ea castra convecto, quae super Suessulam erant, munimentisque firmatis et praesidio, quod per hiberna ad tenendum locum satis esset, relicto ipse Capuam propius movit castra agrumque Campanum ferro ignique est depopulatus, §23.46.10donec coacti sunt Campani, nihil admodum viribus suis fidentes, egredi portis et castra ante urbem in aperto communire.
When Quintus Fabius heard that Hannibal had set out for Apulia, after bringing grain from Nola and Neapolis into those camps which were above Suessula, strengthening the fortifications, and leaving a garrison which would be sufficient to hold the place through the winter, he himself moved his camp closer to Capua and devastated the Campanian territory with fire and sword, until the Campanians, trusting not at all in their own strength, were forced to go out from the gates and fortify a camp before the city in the open.
§23.46.11sex milia armatorum habebant, peditem inbellem, equitatu plus poterant; itaque equestribus proeliis lacessebant hostem.
They had six thousand armed men, an unwarlike infantry, but they were more powerful in cavalry; and so they harassed the enemy with cavalry battles.
§23.46.12inter multos nobiles equites Campanos Cerrinus Vibellius erat, cognomine Taurea.
Among many noble Campanian cavalrymen was Cerrinus Vibellius, surnamed Taurea.
civis indidem erat, longe omnium Campanorum fortissimus eques, adeo ut, cum apud Romanos militaret, unus eum Romanus Claudius Asellus gloria equestri aequaret.
He was a citizen of that very place, by far the bravest horseman of all the Campanians, so much so that, when he was serving among the Romans, only one Roman, Claudius Asellus, equaled him in equestrian glory.
§23.46.13is tunc Taurea, cum diu perlustrans oculis obequitasset hostium turmis, tandem silentio facto, ubi esset Claudius Asellus, quaesivit et, §23.46.14quoniam verbis secum de virtute ambigere solitus esset, cur non ferro decerneret daretque opima spolia victus aut victor caperet.
This Taurea then, when he had ridden up to the squadrons of the enemy, surveying them with his eyes for a long time, at last, when silence was made, asked where Claudius Asellus was, and, since he had been accustomed to dispute with him in words about valor, why did he not decide it with the sword and either give up the spolia opima if defeated, or take them as victor?