Tacitus 3 Flashcards
Ac primum legio immota et angustias loci pro munimento retines, postquam in propius suggressos hostes certo iacto tela exhauserat, velut cuneo erupit.
And at first the legion, not moved from its position, and keeping the narrow parts of the area as a defence, after it had exhausted its supply of javelins with unerring aim at the enemy, who had approached nearer, burst out in a wedge-like formation.
Idem auxiliarium impetus; et eques protentis hastis perfringit quod obvium et validum erat.
The attack of the auxiliary troops was identical, the calvary, too, with their spears extended, broke through any strong opposition.
Ceteri terga praebuere, difficili effugio, quia circumiecta vehicula saepserant abitus.
The rest turned in flight, but escape was difficult, because the carts which had been placed around had blocked the way out.
Et miles ne mulierum quidem neci temperabat, confixaque telis etiam iumenta corporum cumulum auxerant
The soldiers, too, did not even refrain from slaughtering the women, and the beasts of burden also, pierced by the weapons, had increased the pile of bodies.
Clara et antiquis victoriis par ea die laus parta:
The glory won on that day (was) outstanding and equal to victories in the past.
: quippe sunt qui paulo minus quam octoginta milia Britannorum cecidisse tradant, militum quadringentis ferme interfectis nec multo amplius vulneratis.
For in fact, some (authorities) relate that less than 80,00 Britons fell, with approximately 400 (Roman) soldiers killed and not many more wounded.
Boudicca vitam veneno finivit
Boudicca ended her life with poison.
Et Poenius Postumus, praefectus castrorum secondae legionis, cognitis quartadecimanorum vicesimanorumque prosperis rebus, quia pari gloria legionem suam fraudaverat abnueratque contra ritu, militiae iussa ducis, se ipse gladio transegit.
Poenius Postumus, also, commander of the camp of the second legion, when he learnt of the success of the men of the fourteenth and twentieth legions, stabbed himself through with a sword, because he had cheated his own legion of similar glory and disobeyed the orders of his commander, contrary to military practice.
