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Nullum in illa trepidatione Antonius constantis ducis aut fortis militis officium omisit. occursare paventibus, retinere (occursare … retinere: hist. infinitives replacing imperf. indicative; so are instare, sternere, spoliare, capere, and abripere towards the end of the chapter.) cedentis, ubi plurimus labor, unde aliqua spes, consilio manu voce insignis hosti, conspicuus suis. eo postremo ardoris provectus est ut (eo postremo ardoris provectus est ut …: ‘he was carried away by such extreme of ardor that …’; ut, here preceded by the correlative eo, is consecutive; postremo is abl of postremum = extremum, not adverb.) vexillarium fugientem hasta transverberaret; mox raptum vexillum in hostem vertit. quo pudore (quo pudore: abl. of instrument or of cause, ‘by which rebuke’ or ‘owing to which rebuke’) haud plures quam centum equites restitere: iuvit locus, artiore illic via et fracto interfluentis rivi ponte, qui incerto alveo et praecipitibus ripis fugam impediebat. (artiore illic via et fracto interfluentis rivi ponte, qui incerto alveo et praecipitibus ripis fugam impediebat: abl. abs. of causal sense governing a rel. clause; interfluentis rivi: ‘of a stream flowing between [the two ends of a broken bridge]; incerto alveo: ‘with its unsafe channel’; alveus may also refer to the current rather than the actual bed.) ea necessitas seu fortuna lapsas iam partis restituit. (lapsas iam partis restituit: ‘restored a party already fallen’.) firmati inter se densis ordinibus (firmati inter se densis ordinibus: ‘being made mutually stronger by a tighter formation’.) excipiunt Vitellianos temere effusos, atque illi consternantur. (atque illi consternantur: ‘and they [the Vitellians] are thrown into confusion’; consternantur: switch to dramatic present, as is excipiunt just before.) Antonius instare perculsis, sternere obvios, simul ceteri, ut cuique ingenium, (ut cuique ingenium: ‘according to the inclination each of them had’; cuique is dat. of possessor with an implied form of esse.) spoliare, capere, arma equosque abripere. et exciti prospero clamore, qui modo (modo: ‘just before’) per agros fuga palabantur, (palabantur: the deponent palari is applied to defeated troops to mean ‘to wander about aimlessly in a disorganized manner’) victoriae se miscebant. (victoriae se miscebant: lit. ‘associated themselves to the victory’)