Caesar's De Bello Gallico 4.26

Question 1

Pugnatum est ab utrīsque acriter.

Answer 1

It was fought by both fiercely.

Question 2

Nostrī tamen,

Answer 2

Our men however,

Question 3

quod neque ordines servare neque firmiter insistere neque signa subsequī poterant

Answer 3

because they were not able to guard the ranks nor to stand firmly nor to closely pursue the standards

Question 4

atque alius aliā ex navī quibuscumque signīs occurrerat se adgregabat,

Answer 4

and one man from another ship and had come to whatever standards he was joining himself,

Question 5

magnopere perturbabantur;

Answer 5

they were being greatly terrified;

Question 6

hostes vero,

Answer 6

the enemy truly,

Question 7

notis omnibus vadīs,

Answer 7

with all shallows known,

Question 8

ubi ex litore aliquōs singulares ex navī egredientes conspexerant,

Answer 8

when they had caught sight of some individuals from the shore disembarking from their ships,

Question 9

incitatīs equīs impeditos adoriebantur,

Answer 9

with their horses stirred up they were attacking our men impeded,

Question 10

plures paucos circumsistebant,

Answer 10

many were surrounding a few,

Question 11

aliī ab latere apertō in universos tela coniciebant.

Answer 11

others from the open flank were hurling weapons onto the whole (group).

Question 12

Quod cum animadvertisset Caesar,

Answer 12

Which when Caesar had noticed,

Question 13

scaphas longarum navium,

Answer 13

the skiffs of the long ships,

Question 14

item speculatoria navigia militibus complerī iussit,

Answer 14

also the scouting ships he ordered to be filled by the soldiers,

Question 15

et quos laborantes conspexerat,

Answer 15

and those whom he had looked at laboring,

Question 16

hīs subsidia submittebat.

Answer 16

he was sending help to these soldiers.

Question 17

Nostrī, simul in aridō constiterunt,

Answer 17

Our men, as soon as they stood on dry land,

Question 18

suīs omnibus consecutīs.

Answer 18

with all their own having followed,

Question 19

in hostes impetum fecerunt atque eos in fugam dederunt;

Answer 19

onto the enemy they made an attack and they put them into flight;

Question 20

neque longius prosequī potuerunt,

Answer 20

nor were they able to follow very far,

Question 21

quod equites cursum tenere atque insulam capere non potuerant.

Answer 21

because the cavalry had not been able to hold their course and reach the island.

Question 22

Hoc unum ad pristnam fortunam Caesarī defuit.

Answer 22

This one thing was lacking for Caesar to his previous fortune.