§29.2.1Romani quoque imperatores L. Lentulus et L. Manlius Acidinus, ne glisceret prima neglegendo bellum, §29.2.2iunctis et ipsi exercitibus per agrum Ausetanum hostico tamquam pacato clementer ductis militibus ad sedem hostium pervenere et trium milium spatio procul a castris eorum posuerunt castra.
The Roman commanders also, L. Lentulus and L. Manlius Acidinus, lest the war should grow by neglecting its first stages, having themselves also united their armies, marched their soldiers mildly through the Ausetanian territory, as if through a peaceful rather than a hostile country, and reached the seat of the enemy, and pitched their camp at a distance of three miles from the enemy's camp.
§29.2.3primo per legatos nequiquam temptatum, ut discederetur ab armis; dein, cum in pabulatores Romanos impetus repente ab equitibus Hispanis factus esset, summisso ab statione Romana equitatu equestre proelium fuit haud sane memorando in partem ullam eventu.
At first, an attempt was made in vain through envoys to induce them to lay down their arms; then, when a sudden attack was made by the Spanish cavalry upon the Roman foragers, and cavalry was sent from the Roman outpost, a cavalry skirmish took place with an issue by no means memorable for either side.
§29.2.4sole oriente postero die armati instructique omnes mille ferme passus procul a castris Romanis aciem ostendere.
At sunrise on the following day, all of them, armed and drawn up, displayed their battle line about a mile from the Roman camp.
§29.2.5medii Ausetani erant; cornua dextrum Ilergetes, laevum ignobiles tenebant Hispani populi; inter cornua et mediam aciem intervalla patentia satis late fecerant, qua equitatum, ubi tempus esset, emitterent.
The Ausetani were in the center; the Ilergetes held the right wing, and the ignoble Spanish peoples the left; between the wings and the center they had left intervals open wide enough to send out the cavalry when the time should come.
et Romani more suo exercitum cum instruxissent, §29.2.6id modo hostium imitati sunt, ut inter legiones et ipsi patentes equiti relinquerent vias.
And when the Romans, according to their custom, had drawn up their army, they imitated the enemy only in this, that they themselves also left open passages between the legions for the cavalry.
§29.2.7ceterum Lentulus ei parti usum equitis fore ratus, quae prior in dehiscentem intervallis hostium aciem equites emisisset, Ser.
But Lentulus, thinking that the use of the cavalry would belong to that side which should first launch its horsemen into the enemy's line as it gaped with intervals, ordered Ser.
§29.2.8Cornelio tribuno militum imperat, equites per patentes in hostium acie vias permittere equos iubeat.
Cornelius, the military tribune, to command the horsemen to let loose their horses through the open passages in the enemy's line.
§29.2.9ipse coepta parum prospere pedestri pugna tantum moratus, dum cedenti duodecimae legioni, quae in laevo cornu adversus Ilergetes locata erat, tertiam decumam legionem ex subsidiis in primam aciem firmamentum ducit, postquam aequata ibi pugna est,
He himself, having delayed only so long in the infantry battle, which had begun with little success, as was necessary to lead the thirteenth legion from the reserves to the front line as a reinforcement for the twelfth legion, which was stationed on the left wing against the Ilergetes and was giving way, after the battle was restored there, came to L.
§29.2.10ad L. Manlium inter prima signa hortantem ac subsidia quibus res postulabat locis inducentem venit; indicat tuta ab laevo cornu esse;
Manlius, who was encouraging the men among the foremost standards and bringing up reserves to the places where the situation demanded; he indicated that the left wing was safe, and that Ser.
§29.2.11iam missum ab se Ser. Cornelium procella equestri hostes circumfusurum.
Cornelius, whom he had already sent, would soon surround the enemy with a cavalry storm.
§29.2.12vix haec dicta dederat cum Romani equites in medios invecti hostes simul pedestres acies turbarunt, simul equitibus Hispanorum viam immittendi equos clauserunt.
Hardly had he said these words when the Roman horsemen, charging into the midst of the enemy, at once threw the infantry lines into confusion and blocked the way for the Spanish cavalry to launch their horses.
§29.2.13itaque omissa pugna equestri ad pedes Hispani descenderunt.
Therefore, giving up the cavalry fight, the Spaniards dismounted.
Romani imperatores ut turbatos hostium ordines et trepidationem pavoremque et fluctuantia viderunt signa, hortantur, orant milites, ut perculsos invadant neu restitui aciem patiantur.
When the Roman commanders saw the ranks of the enemy thrown into confusion, their trepidation and panic, and their waving standards, they exhorted and entreated the soldiers to charge the stricken foe and not to allow their line to be restored.
§29.2.14non sustinuissent tam infestum impetum barbari, ni regulus ipse Indibilis cum equitibus ad pedes degressis ante prima signa peditum se obiecisset.
The barbarians would not have withstood so fierce an onslaught, had not the petty king Indibilis himself, with the horsemen who had dismounted, thrown himself before the foremost standards of the infantry.
§29.2.15ibi aliquamdiu atrox pugna stetit; tandem, postquam ii, qui circa regem seminecem restantem, deinde pilo terrae adfixum pugnabant, obruti telis occubuerunt, tum fuga passim coepta.
There for some time a fierce battle was maintained; at last, after those who were fighting around the king, who was first resisting half-dead and then pinned to the ground by a javelin, fell overwhelmed by weapons, then flight began on every side.
§29.2.16plures caesi quia equos conscendendi equitibus spatium non fuerat, et quia perculsis acriter institerunt Romani; nec ante abscessum est, quam castris quoque exuerunt hostem.
More were slain because the horsemen had no time to mount their horses, and because the Romans hotly pursued them in their panic; nor did they withdraw until they had also stripped the enemy of their camp.
§29.2.17decem tria milia Hispanorum caesa eo die, mille octingenti ferme capti; Romanorum sociorumque paulo amplius ducenti, maxime in laevo cornu, ceciderunt.
Thirteen thousand of the Spaniards were slain on that day, and about one thousand eight hundred captured; of the Romans and allies, a little more than two hundred fell, mostly on the left wing.
§29.2.18pulsi castris Hispani aut qui ex proelio effugerant sparsi primo per agros, deinde in suas quisque civitates redierunt.
The Spaniards who had been driven from the camp or who had fled from the battle, scattered at first through the fields, and then returned, each to his own state.