§40.33.1sauciis deinde in oppidum Aeburam devectis per Carpetaniam ad Contrebiam ductae legiones.
After the wounded had been conveyed into the town of Aebura, the legions were led through Carpetania to Contrebia.
§40.33.2ea urbs circumsessa cum a Celtiberis auxilia arcessisset, morantibus iis, non quia ipsi cunctati sunt, sed quia profectos domo inexplicabiles continuis imbribus viae et inflati amnes tenebant, desperato auxilio suorum in deditionem venit.
This city, which was under siege, had summoned aid from the Celtiberians; but while they delayed—not because they themselves hesitated, but because, after they had set out from home, impassable roads due to continuous rains and swollen rivers held them back—the city, despairing of help from its people, surrendered.
§40.33.3Flaccus quoque tempestatibus foedis coactus exercitum omnem in urbem introduxit.
Flaccus also, compelled by the dreadful weather, led his entire army into the city.
§40.33.4Celtiberi, qui profecti erant deditionis ignari, cum tandem superatis, ubi primum remiserunt imbres, amnibus Contrebiam venissent, postquam nulla castra extra moenia viderunt, aut in alteram partem translata rati aut recessisse hostes, per neglegentiam effusi ad oppidum accesserunt.
The Celtiberians, who had set out unaware of the surrender, when they had at last crossed the rivers as soon as the rains abated and arrived at Contrebia, saw no camp outside the walls; thinking that the enemy had either moved to another area or retreated, they approached the town scattered in negligence.
§40.33.5in eos duabus portis Romani eruptionem fecerunt et incompositos adorti fuderunt.
The Romans made a sally against them from two gates and, attacking them while they were disorganized, routed them.
quae res ad resistendum eos §40.33.6et ad capessendam pugnam impediit, quod non uno agmine nec ad signa frequentes veniebant, eadem magnae parti ad fugam saluti fuit:
This circumstance hindered them from resisting and from taking up the fight, because they were not coming in a single column nor assembled around their standards; yet the very same thing was a source of safety to a great part of them for their flight.
§40.33.7sparsi enim toto passim campo se diffuderunt, nec usquam confertos eos hostis circumvenit.
For, dispersed all over the field, they scattered, and nowhere did the enemy hem them in as a compact body.
tamen ad duodecim milia sunt caesa, capta plus quinque milia hominum, equi quadringenti, signa militaria sexaginta duo.
Nevertheless, up to twelve thousand were slain, more than five thousand men captured, along with four hundred horses and sixty-two military standards.
§40.33.8qui palati e fuga domum se recipiebant, alterum agmen venientium Celtiberorum deditionem Contrebiae et suam cladem narrando averterunt.
Those who were returning home, dispersed from the flight, turned back another column of coming Celtiberians by telling of the surrender of Contrebia and their own disaster.
§40.33.9extemplo in vicos castellaque sua omnes dilapsi.
Immediately they all slipped away to their own villages and strongholds.
Flaccus a Contrebia profectus per Celtiberiam populabundus ducit legiones multa castella expugnando, done maxima pars Celtiberorum in deditionem venit.
Flaccus, setting out from Contrebia, led his legions through Celtiberia, plundering and storming many strongholds, until the greatest part of the Celtiberians surrendered.