Section 5G(ii) The Battle of Pistoria

Question 1

sed ubi, omnibus rēbus explōrātīs, Petrēius tubā signum dat, cohortīs paulātim incēdere iubet.

Answer 1

But when, after all issues have been examined, Petreius gives the signal with a trumpet, he orders the cohorts to advance little by little.

Question 2

idem facit hostium exercitus.

Answer 2

The army of the enemy does the same thing.

Question 3

postquam eō uentum est unde ā ferentāriīs proelium committī posset, …

Answer 3

After they came [one came] to a place from which it was possible for battle to be engaged by the light-armed troops, …

Question 4

… exercitus uterque maximō clāmōre cum īnfestīs signīs concurrunt.

Answer 4

… each army, with an enormous noise, run(s) together with standards set for attack.

Question 5

pīla omittunt, gladiīs rēs geritur.

Answer 5

The leave aside the javelins, the affair is conducted by swords.

Question 6

ueterānī, prīstinae uirtūtis memorēs, comminus ācriter īnstāre, …

Answer 6

The veterans, remembering their former courage, press on fiercely to close quarters, …

Question 7

… illī haud timidī resistunt.

Answer 7

… (and) those (others) resist in no cowardly way [they not timid resist].

Question 8

maximā uī certātur.

Answer 8

There is struggling with the greatest amount of force.

Question 9

intereā Catilīna, cum expedītīs in prīmā aciē uersārī, …

Answer 9

Meanwhile Catiline, wqw occupied in the first line with the light-armed (soldiers), …

Question 10

… labōrantibus succurrere, …

Answer 10

… he helped those having difficulty, …

Question 11

… integrōs prō sauciīs arcessere, …

Answer 11

… he summoned unhurt men on behalf of the wounded, …

Question 12

… omnia prōuidēre, …

Answer 12

… he took care of everything, …

Question 13

… multum ipse pugnāre, …

Answer 13

… he himself fought a great deal, …

Question 14

… saepe hostem ferīre;

Answer 14

… he often struck an enemy;

Question 15

strēnuī mīlitis et bonī imperātōris officia simul exsequēbātur.

Answer 15

He was performing the duties of an energetic soldier and a good general at same time.

Question 16

Petrēius, ubi uidet Catilīnam, contrā ac ratus erat, magnā uī tendere, …

Answer 16

Petreius, when he sees that Catiline, contrary to what he had expected, is struggling with great force, ..

Question 17

… cohortem praetōriam in mediōs hostīs indūcit, …

Answer 17

… brings the praetorian cohort into the middle of the enemy,

Question 18

eōsque perturbātōs atque aliōs alibī resistentīs interficit.

Answer 18

… and he kills those in the confusion [those having been confused] and others resisting elsewhere.

Question 19

deinde utrōque ex latere cēterōs aggreditur.

Answer 19

Then he attacks the others from each flank.

Question 20

Mānlius et Faesulānus in prīmīs pugnantēs cadunt.

Answer 20

Manlius and the man from Faesulae fall fighting among the first.

Question 21

Catilīna, postquam fūsās cōpiās sēque cum paucīs relictum uidet, …

Answer 21

Catiline, after he sees that his troops have been routed and that he has been left with a few (men), …

Question 22

… memor generis atque prīstinae suae dignitātis, …

Answer 22

… remembering his ancestry and his former prestige, …

Question 23

… in cōnfertissimōs hostīs incurrit, …

Answer 23

… charges into the most closely-packed of the enemy, …

Question 24

… ibīque pugnāns cōnfoditur.

Answer 24

… and, fighting there, is stabbed.