LXXVIII.
Vera erant, et a tribunis praefectisque (a tribunis praefectisque: respectively the officers within a legion and in the auxiliary cohorts) eadem ingerebantur. consistunt per cohortis et manipulos; neque enim poterat patescere acies effuso hoste et impedientibus tentoriis sarcinisque, cum intra vallum pugnaretur. (cum … pugnaretur: subjunctive after causal cum) Tutor et Classicus et Civilis suis quisque locis pugnam ciebant, Gallos pro libertate, Batavos pro gloria, Germanos ad praedam instigantes. (pugnam ciebant, …pro …instigantes: ‘stimulated the combat, encouraging to fight for …’. ) et cuncta pro hostibus erant, donec legio unaetvicensima patentiore quam ceterae spatio conglobata sustinuit ruentis, mox impulit. (donec … sustinuit … impulit: cf. the two notes for donec in previous chapter.) nec sine ope divina mutatis repente animis terga victores vertere. ipsi territos se cohortium aspectu ferebant, quae primo impetu disiectae summis rursus iugis congregabantur ac speciem novi auxilii fecerant. (ipsi territos se cohortium aspectu [esse] ferebant, quae … speciem novi auxilii fecerant: ‘they themselves said that they (se) had been terrified by the sight of cohorts, which gave the impression (speciem fecerant) of new reinforcements’. quae …fecerant: not quae fecissent, expected in indir. discourse after ferebant, in that the clause is purely incidental, an explanation of the author to clarify the misapprehension; cf G. 628. R. (a).) sed obstitit vincentibus pravum inter ipsos certamen omisso hoste spolia consectandi. (obstitit vincentibus pravum inter ipsos certamen omisso hoste spolia consectandi: lit. ‘a shameful dispute among themselves of securing plunder stopped them so close to victory, the enemy having been forgotten’. vincentibus is dat. with obsto; spolia consectandi: the genitive gerund, like the abl. without preposition and unlike the dat. and acc. gerund, can have a direct object.) Cerialis ut incuria prope rem adflixit, ita constantia restituit; (ut … adflixit, ita … restituit: comparative sentence: both dependent and main clause normally with indicative.) secutusque fortunam castra hostium eodem die capit excinditque.