§41.26.1Celtiberi in Hispania, qui bello domiti se Ti. Graccho dediderant, pacati manserant M. Titinio praetore obtinente provinciam.
The Celtiberians in Spain, who, having been subdued in war, had surrendered themselves to Tiberius Gracchus, had remained peaceful while the praetor Marcus Titinius was governing the province.
rebellarunt sub adventum Ap. Claudi orsique bellum sunt ab repentina oppugnatione castrorum Romanorum.
They rebelled upon the arrival of Appius Claudius and began the war with a sudden attack on the Roman camp.
§41.26.2prima lux ferme erat, cum vigiles in vallo quique in portarum stationibus erant, cum vidissent procul venientem hostem, ad arma conclamaverunt.
It was almost dawn when the sentinels on the rampart and those who were at the guard-posts of the gates, when they saw the enemy approaching from afar, shouted to arms.
§41.26.3Ap. Claudius, signo proposito pugnae ac paucis adhortatus milites, tribus simul portis eduxit.
Appius Claudius, having displayed the signal for battle and encouraged his soldiers with a few words, led them out through three gates at the same time.
obsistentibus ad exitum Celtiberis primo par utrimque proelium fuit, quia propter angustias non omnes in faucibus pugnare poterant Romani; §41.26.4urguentes deinde alii alios secuti ubi evaserunt extra vallum, ut pandere aciem et exaequari cornibus hostium, quibus circumibantur, possent, ita repente inruperunt, ut sustinere impetum eorum Celtiberi nequirent.
As the Celtiberians resisted at the exit, the battle was at first equal on both sides, because, owing to the narrowness, not all the Romans could fight in the passageways; then, pushing one another and following behind, when they had escaped outside the rampart, so that they could extend their line of battle and match the wings of the enemy, by whom they were being surrounded, they rushed forward so suddenly that the Celtiberians could not withstand their attack.
§41.26.5ante horam secundam pulsi sunt; ad quindecim milia caesa aut capta, signa adempta duo et triginta.
Before the second hour they were routed; about fifteen thousand were slain or captured, and thirty-two standards were taken.
castra etiam eo die expugnata debellatumque; nam qui superfuere proelio, in oppida sua dilapsi sunt.
On that day the camp was also captured and the war was finished; for those who survived the battle dispersed to their own towns.
quieti deinde paruerunt imperio.
Thereafter they quietly obeyed the Roman rule.