Chapter 37 Flashcards
Ac primum legio gradu immota et angustias loci pro munimento retinens, postquam [in] propius suggressos hostes certo iactu tela exhauserat, velut cuneo erupit. idem auxiliarium impetus;
At first the legion with a motionless footing and holding the narrowness of the place as a defence, after they had exhausted their weapons with a sure aim against the enemy who had approached nearer, just like a burst out wedge.
et eques protentis hastis perfringit quod obvium et validum erat. ceteri terga praebuere, difficili effugio, quia circumiecta vehicula saepserant abitus.
The attack of the auxiliary troops was the same and the cavalry with their spears extended smashed through whatever was strong and opposing them. The rest offered their backs, with escape difficult, because the surrounding vehicles had blocked the exits.
et miles ne mulierum quidem neci temperabat, confixaque telis etiam iumenta corporum cumulum auxerant.
And the soldiers did not even exercise restraint in killing women, and eve the beasts pierced with weapons had increased the heap of bodies.
clara et antiquis victoriis par ea die laus parta: quippe sunt qui paulo minus quam octoginta milia Britannorum cecidisse tradant, militum quadringentis ferme interfectis nec multo amplius vulneratis. Boudicca vitam veneno finivit.
Famous praise equal to victories of old was won on that day: for in fact there are those who report a little fewer than 80 000 Britons had fallen, with around 400 of our soldiers killed not many more that were wounded. Boudica finished her life with poison.
et Poenius Postumus, praefectus castrorum secundae legionis, cognitis quartadecimanorum vicesimanorumque prosperis rebus, quia pari gloria legionem suam fraudaverat abnueratque contra ritum militiae iussa ducis, se ipse gladio transegit.
And Poenius Postumus, camp commander of the second legion, having found out about the success of the men of the fourteenth and the twentieth legions, because he had robbed his legion of equal glory and had rejected the orders of the leader against military convention, he ran himself through with his own sword.
