SALLUSTII CATILINA

CHAPTER 26

Exercitus hostium facit idem. Postquam ventum est

The army or the enemies does the same. After it was come

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eo, unde praelium posset committi a

they came) there, where the battle might be engaged-in by

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ferentariis, concurrunt maxumo clamore, infestis

be light-armed, they rush with the greatest shout, with hostile

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signis; omittunt pila; res geritur gladiis.

standards; cast-aside the javelins; the affair is-carried-on with swords,

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Veterani, memores pristinae virtutis,

The veterans, mindful of (their) pristine valour, (began)

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instare acriter, cominus; illi haud timidi

to press-on vigorously, hand-to-hand; they (the others) not fearful

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resistunt: certatur maxuma vi. Interea

resist: it is contended with the greatest force. Meantime

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Catilina versari cum expeditis in prima.

Catiline (began) to be occupied with the light-armed in the first

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acie: succurrere laborantibus,

line; to relieve (to those] labouring (hard-pressed),

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accersere integros pro seuciis ; providere

to summon (fresh (men) instead-of the wounded; to provide for

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omnia; ipse pugnare multum; saepe

all (things); himselt to fight much; often

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ferire hostem; exsequebatur simul officia

to strike the enemy; he did discharge at-the-same-time the duties

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strenui militis et boni imperatoris. Ubi

of a vigorous soldier and of a good commander. When

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Petreius videt Catilinam tendere magna vi,

Petreius sees Catiline to strive with great force,

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contra ac ratus-erat, inducit praetoriam

otherwise than be had supposed, he leads-in the pretorian

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cohortem in medios hostis (hostes), interficit

cobort into the middle-of the enemies, kills

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que eos perturbatos atque alios resistentes

both those disordered and others resisting

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alibi: deinde aggreditur caeteros utrimque

elsewhere: afterwards he attacks the rest on-both-sides

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ex lateribus. Manlius et Faesulanus pugnantes

of the flanks. Manlius and the Foesulanus fighting

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in primis cadunt.

in the first (the van) fall. [Fell fighting among the first.]

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Postquam Catilina videt copias fusas que se

After-that Catiline saw (his) forces routed and himself

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relictum cum paucis, memor generis atque suae

left with a few, mindful or (his) race and his

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pristinae dignitatis, incurrit in confertissumos hostes,

ancient dignity, he rushes into the thickest enemies,

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que ibi pugnans confoditur. Sed, praelio

and there fighting is run-through. But, the battle

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confecto, tum vero cerneres quanta.

having been finished, then in-truth you might perceive how-great

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audacia, que quanta vis animi, fuisset (pl. sub.)

boldness, and how-great strength of mind, might have been (had been)

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in exercitu Catilinae. Nam quisque, anima

in the army of Catiline. For every-one, (his) life

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amissa, fere tegebat corpore

being lost, almost (for the most part) did cover with (his) body

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locum, quem vivus ceperat pugnando.

the place, which (when) alive he had taken in fighting.

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Autem pauci, quos medios, praetoria cohors

But as few, whom (being) middle, the pretorian cohort

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disjecerat, conciderant paulo diversius,

had dispersed, had fallen a little more differently [more scattered]

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sed omnes tamen adversis vulneribus.

but all however with front wounds.

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Vero Catilina repertus-est inter cadavera.

But Catiline was found among the dead-bodies of (his)

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hostium longe a suis, etiam spirans paululum,

enemies far from his own (men), even breathing a little,

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que retinens vultu ferociam animi,

and retaining in [his] face the fierceness of mind,

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quam vivus habuerat. Postremo, quisquam

which (when) alive he had had. Finally, any-one

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ingenuus civis ex omni copia, neque captus-est

free-born citizen of all the force, neither was taken

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in praelio, neque in fuga. Ita cuncti pepercerant

in the battle, nor so the flight. So all had spared

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suae que vitae hostium justa.

to their-own and the life of enemies equally.

[so little did all spare eithor their own life, or that of the enemy.]

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Neque, tamen, exercitus Romani populi adeptus-erat laetam

Neither, however, the army of the Roman people had obtained a joyful

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aut incruentam victoriam. Nam quisque strenuissimus

or bloodless victory, For each braveness (man)

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aut occiderat in praelio, aut

either had fallen [in] the engagement, or

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discesserat graviter vulneratus. Autem multi,

had departed severely wounded. But many,

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qui processerant e castris gratia

who had proceeded from the camps by favour (for the sake)

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visundi aut spoliandi, volventes cadavera, alia

of going-to-see or despoiling, rolling the dead-bodies, some

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reperiebant amicum, pars hospitem, aut cognatum.

did discover a friend, part a guest, or a relation.

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Fuere item, qui cognoscerent (imp. sub.)

(There) were likewise (some), who might know (did recognise)

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suos inimicos. Ita laetitia, moeror, luctus,

their-own enemies. Thus gladness, sorrow, grief,

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atque gaudia varie-agitabantur per omnem exercitum.

and joys were variously-mixed (exhibited) throughout the whole army.

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