2l6 THE ENEMY ARE REPULSED
extrā mūnītiōnēs prōcessit et in eam hostium partem quae cōnfertissima vidēbātur[1] inrūpit. Neque Vorēnus quidem turn vāllō[2] sēsē continet, sed Pullōnem subsequitur..png)
CENTURIO Tum Pullō pīlum in hostīs immittit atque ūnum ex multitūdine prōcurrentem trāicit. Hunc percussum et exanimātum hostēs scūtīs prōtegunt et in Pullōnem omnēs tēla coniciunt. Eius scūtum trānsfigitur et tēlum in balteō dēfīgitur. Hic cāsus vāgīnam āvertit et dextram manum eius gladium ēdūcere cōnantis[3] morātur. Eum ita impedītum hostēs circumsistunt.
Tum vērō eī[4] labōrantī Vorēnus, cum sit inimīcus, tamen auxilium dat. Ad hunc cōnfestim ā[5] Pullōne omnis multitudō sē convertit. Gladiō comminus pugnat Vorēnus, atque, ūnō interfectō, reliquōs paulum prōpellit. Sed instāns cupidius[6] infēlix, pede[7] sē fallente, concidit.
Huic rūrsus circumventō auxilium dat Pullō, atque ambō incolumēs, plūribus interfectīs, summā cum laude intrā mūnītiōnēs sē recipiunt. Sīc inimīcōrum alter alterī auxilium dedit nec dē eōrum virtūte quisquam iūdicāre potuit.
LXXI. THE ENEMY BESIEGING THE CAMP ARE REPULSED
Cum iam sex hōrās pugnātum esset[8] ac nōn sōlum vīrēs sed etiam tēla Rōmānōs dēficerent,[8] atque hostēs ācrius īnstārent,[8] et vāllum scindere fossamque complēre incēpissent,[8] Caesar, vir reī mīlitāris perītissimus,
- ↑ vidēbātur, inrūpit. Why is the imperfect used in one case and the perfect in the other? Cf. § 190.
- ↑ vāllō, abl. of means, but in EngUsh we should say within the rampart. Cf. ingentī stabulō, p. 201, 1. 13, and note.
- ↑ cōnantis, pres. part, agreeing with eius.
- ↑ eī labōrantī, indir. obj. of dat.
- ↑ ā Pullōne, from Pullo, abl. of separation.
- ↑ cupidius, too eagerly.
- ↑ pede sē fallente, lit. the foot deceiving itself; in our idiom, his foot slipping.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 pugnātum esset, dēficerent, instārent, incēpissent. These are all subjunctives with cum. Cf. §301.46.
