LXVIII.
Illi ante discrimen feroces, in periculo pavidi, quamquam primo tumultu Claudium Severum ducem legerant, (quamquam … legerant: quamquam takes the indicative, except in poetry and later writers.) non arma noscere, non ordines sequi, non in unum consulere. (non arma noscere, non ordines sequi, non in unum consulere: noscere, sequi, consulere are hist. infinitives; ordines sequi: in the sense of ‘to follow the standards’, that is ‘to maintain position within the ranks during advance or retreat’; in unum consulere: lit. ‘to plan for the common good’, i.e. ‘to act in unison’, ‘to maneuvre in concert’) exitiosum adversus veteranos proelium, intuta obsidio dilapsis vetustate moenibus; hinc Caecina cum valido exercitu, inde Raeticae alae cohortesque et ipsorum Raetorum iuventus, sueta armis et more militiae exercita. undique populatio et caedes: ipsi medio vagi, abiectis armis, magna pars saucii aut palantes, in montem Vocetium (in montem Vocetium: the Bötzberg near Windisch) perfugere. ac statim immissa cohorte Thraecum (cohorte Thraecum: Alpine troops accustomed to mountain warfare) depulsi et consectantibus Germanis Raetisque per silvas atque in ipsis latebris trucidati. multa hominum milia caesa, multa sub corona venundata. (multa [milia] sub corona venundata: venumdare or venum dare, lit. ‘to give a sale’, i.e. ‘to put up for sale’; sub corona: men captured in battle and sold as slaves wore a wreath or crown to mark them as prisoners of war.) cumque dirutis omnibus Aventicum gentis caput infesto agmine peteretur, (cum … Aventicum …infesto agmine peteretur: ‘when Aventicum was approached with forces ready to attack’; cum is followed by subjunctive if the tense is imperfect; Aventicum, modern Avenches, is between Berne and Lake Neuchâtel, about 12 km or 8 miles NW of Freiburg; infesto agmine: ‘in attack formation’.) missi qui dederent civitatem, et deditio accepta. in Iulium Alpinum e principibus ut concitorem belli Caecina animadvertit: (in Iulium Alpinum … Caecina animadvertit: in aliquem animadvertere: ‘to inflict capital punishment on someone’) ceteros veniae vel saevitiae Vitellii reliquit.