3.6.1Quod iussī sunt faciunt, ac subitō omnibus portīs ēruptiōne factā neque cognōscendī quid fieret neque suī colligendī hostibus facultātem relinquunt.They do as they were ordered, and suddenly, making a sally from all the gates, they leave the enemy no chance either to find out what was happening or to collect themselves.Note. Quod iussī sunt faciunt: 'they do what they were ordered'. The present tense makes the story vivid. 3.6.2Ita commūtātā fortūnā eōs quī in spem potiundōrum castrōrum vēnerant undique circumventōs intercipiunt, et ex hominum mīlibus amplius XXX, quem numerum barbarōrum ad castra vēnisse cōnstābat, plūs tertiā parte interfectā reliquōs perterritōs in fugam coiciunt ac nē in locīs quidem superiōribus cōnsistere patiuntur.So, with fortune reversed, they surround and cut off on every side those who had come in the hope of taking the camp; and of more than thirty thousand men, which was known to be the number of barbarians who had come to the camp, they kill more than a third, put the rest to flight in terror, and do not let them make a stand even on the higher ground.Note. potiundōrum castrōrum is an old form of potiendōrum, 'of taking the camp'. 3.6.3Sīc omnibus hostium cōpiīs fūsīs armīsque exūtīs sē intrā mūnītiōnēs suās recipiunt.So, when all the enemy's forces had been routed and stripped of their arms, they withdrew within their fortifications.
3.6.4Quō proeliō factō, quod saepius fortūnam temptāre Galba nōlēbat atque aliō sē in hīberna cōnsiliō vēnisse meminerat, aliīs occurrisse rēbus vidēbat, maximē frūmentī commeātūsque inopiā permōtus posterō diē omnibus eius vīcī aedificiīs incēnsīs in prōvinciam revertī contendit, ac nūllō hoste prohibente aut iter dēmorante incolumem legiōnem in Nantuātēs, inde in Allobrogēs perdūxit ibique hiemāvit.After this battle, since Galba did not want to try his fortune too often, and remembered that he had come into winter quarters with one plan and saw that he had met with quite different circumstances, he was moved above all by the lack of grain and supplies; on the next day he burned all the buildings of the village and hurried to return to the Province, and with no enemy blocking or delaying his march he brought the legion safely to the Nantuates, then to the Allobroges, and wintered there.Note. Caesar gives Galba's reasons with quod … meminerat … vidēbat, then the main verb contendit.