Caesar 2 Flashcards
transfigitur scutum Pulloni et verutum in balteo defigitur.
Pullo’s shield was pierced through and a short spear fixed itself in his belt.
avertit hic casus vaginam et gladium educere conanti dextram moratur manum, impeditumque hostes circumsistunt.
This event turned his scabbard aside, and hindered his right hand as he tried to draw his sword; the enemy surrounded the impeded man.
succurrit inimicus illi Vorenus et laboranti subvenit.
His rival Vorenus ran to Pullo’s aid and helped him in his difficulties.
ad hunc se confestim a Pullone omnis multitudo convertit; illum veruto arbitrantur occisum.
The whole crowd immediately turned away from Pullo, onto Vorenus; (for) they thought Pullo had been killed by the spear.
gladio communius rem gerit Vorenus atque uno interfecto reliquos paulum propellit: dum cupidius instat, in locum deiectus inferiorem concidit.
Vorenus carried on the fight at close quarters with his sword and, having killed one, drove the rest back a little way: while he was pursuing (the enemy) too eagerly, he was thrown and fell into a lower piece of ground.
huic rursus circumvento fert subsidium Pullo, atque ambo incolumes compluribus interfectis summa cum laude sese intra munitiones recipiunt.
As Vorenus was again surrounded, Pullo brought help to him, and having killed several, both withdrew safely inside the fortifications with the utmost glory.
sic fortuna in contentione et certamine utrumque versavit, ut alter alteri inimicus auxilio salutique esset neque diiudicari posset, uter tri virtute anteferendus videretur.
In such a way did fortune treat both men in their rivalry and in the fight that the one rival was a means of help and safety to the other and it could not be determined which of the two seemed preferable to the other in respect of valour.
