§37.43.1praeerat castris M. Aemilius tribunus militum, M. Lepidi filius, qui post paucos annos pontifex maximus factus est.
The camp was commanded by M. Aemilius, a military tribune, the son of M. Lepidus, who a few years later was made pontifex maximus.
§37.43.2is qua fugam cernebat suorum, cum praesidio omni occurrit et stare primo, deinde redire in pugnam iubebat pavorem et turpem fugam increpans; §37.43.3minae exinde erant, in perniciem suam caecos ruere, ni dicto parerent; postremo dat suis signum, ut primos fugientium caedant, turbam insequentium ferro et vulneribus in hostem redigant.
Wherever he saw the flight of his men, he ran to meet them with his entire guard and ordered them first to stand, and then to return to the battle, reproaching their panic and shameful flight; then came threats, that they were rushing blindly to their own destruction unless they obeyed his word; finally, he gave the signal to his own men to slaughter the foremost of the fugitives, and to drive the crowd of those following back against the enemy with sword and wounds.
§37.43.4hic maior timor minorem vicit; ancipiti coacti metu primo constiterunt; deinde et ipsi rediere in pugnam, et Aemilius cum suo praesidio — erant autem duo milia virorum fortium — effuse sequenti regi acriter obstitit, §37.43.5et Attalus, Eumenis frater, ab dextro cornu, quo laevum hostium primo impetu fugatum fuerat, ut ab sinistro fugam suorum et tumultum circa castra vidit, in tempore cum ducentis equitibus advenit.
Here the greater fear overcame the lesser; forced by a double fear, they first stood still; then they themselves also returned to the battle, and Aemilius with his guard—there were, moreover, two thousand brave men—fiercely resisted the king who was pursuing in disorder, and Attalus, the brother of Eumenes, from the right wing, where the enemy's left had been routed at the first charge, as soon as he saw the flight of his men on the left and the tumult around the camp, arrived at the right time with two hundred cavalry.
§37.43.6Antiochus postquam et eos, quorum terga modo viderat, repetentis pugnam et aliam et a castris et ex acie adfluentem turbam conspexit, in fugam vertit equum.
Antiochus, after he perceived both those whose backs he had just seen resuming the fight, and another crowd flowing in both from the camp and from the battle line, turned his horse in flight.
§37.43.7ita utroque cornu victores Romani per acervos corporum, quos in media maxime acie cumulaverant, ubi et robur fortissimorum virorum et arma gravitate fugam impedierant, pergunt ad castra diripienda.
Thus victorious on both wings, the Romans, through the heaps of bodies which they had piled up especially in the center of the line, where both the strength of the bravest men and the weight of their armor had prevented their flight, proceeded to plunder the camp.
§37.43.8equites primi omnium Eumenis, deinde et alius equitatus toto passim campo sequuntur hostem et postremos, ut quosque adepti sunt, caedunt.
First of all the cavalry of Eumenes, and then also the rest of the cavalry, pursued the enemy all over the field, and slaughtered the hindmost as they overtook them.
§37.43.9ceterum fugientibus maior pestis, intermixtis quadrigis elephantisque et camelis, erat sua ipsorum turba, cum solutis ordinibus velut caeci super alios alii ruerent et incursu beluarum obtererentur.
However, to the fugitives, a greater plague, amidst the chariots, elephants, and camels mixed together, was their own crowd, since, their ranks being broken, they rushed one over another like blind men and were trodden down by the rush of the beasts.
§37.43.10in castris quoque ingens et maior prope quam in acie caedes est edita; nam et primorum fuga in castra maxime inclinavit, et huius fiducia multitudinis, qui in praesidio erant, §37.43.11pertinacius pro vallo pugnarunt.
In the camp also a huge slaughter was made, almost greater than in the battle; for both the flight of the first fugitives turned the course of the battle chiefly toward the camp, and the defenders, through confidence in this multitude, fought more stubbornly in front of the rampart.
retenti in portis valloque, quae se impetu ipso capturos crediderant, Romani, postquam tandem perruperunt, ab ira graviorem ediderunt caedem.
Retained at the gates and the rampart, which they had believed they would capture by the very first assault, the Romans, after they finally broke through, executed a more grievous slaughter out of anger.