Passage 5

Question 1

ac primum legio gradu immota et angustias loci pro munimento retinens,

Answer 1

At first, the legion, in their unmoved position, keeping to the narrow places of the spot for protection.

Question 2

, postquam in propius suggressos hostes certo iactu tela exhauserat, velut cuneo erupit.

Answer 2

[Then] after the legion had discharged its weapons with certain aim on the enemy [now] approaching more closely, they burst out in a wedge formation.

Question 3

. idem auxiliarium impetus; et eques protentis hastis perfringit quod obvium et validum erat.

Answer 3

. The attack of the auxiliaries was the same and the cavalry, with their spears extended, broke through wherever there was an impeding group of strong men.

Question 4

. ceteri terga praebuere, difficili effugio, quia circumiecta vehicula saepserant abitus.

Answer 4

The others [Britons] turned their backs inflight, with difficult escape because the strewn-around wagons blocked the exits.

Question 5

. et miles ne mulierum quidem neci temperabat, confixaque telis etiam iumenta corporum cumulum auxerant.

Answer 5

. And the troops were not even exercising restraint in the killing of women; and even baggage animals, speared by their weapons, added to the heap of corpses.