Dat. 6.1Sed haec propter hiemāle tempus minus prosperē prōcēdēbant.But because of the winter season these plans went forward less successfully. Dat. 6.1Audit Pisidās quōsdam cōpiās adversus sē parāre.He hears that certain Pisidians are preparing forces against him. Dat. 6.1Fīlium eō Arsidaeum cum exercitū mittit;He sends his son Arsidaeus there with an army; Dat. 6.1cadit in proeliō adulēscēns.the young man falls in battle. Dat. 6.1Proficīscitur eō pater nōn ita magnā cum manū, cēlāns, quantum vulnus accēpisset, quod prius ad hostem pervenīre cupiēbat, quam dē male rē gestā fāma ad suōs pervenīret, nē cognitā fīliī morte animī dēbilitārentur mīlitum.The father sets out there with no very large force, concealing how great a wound he had received, because he wished to reach the enemy before the report of the defeat reached his men, so that the soldiers' spirits should not be weakened by learning of his son's death. Dat. 6.2Quō contenderat, pervēnit iīsque locīs castra pōnit, ut neque circumīrī multitūdine adversāriōrum posset neque impedīrī, quōminus ipse ad dīmicandum manum habēret expedītam.He arrived where he had been hurrying and pitched camp in such a place that he could neither be surrounded by the multitude of his opponents nor prevented from having his own force ready for battle.
Dat. 6.3Erat cum eō Mithrobarzanēs, socer eius, praefectus equitum.With him was Mithrobarzanes, his father-in-law, commander of the cavalry. Dat. 6.3Is dēspērātīs generī rēbus ad hostēs trānsfūgit.He, despairing of his son-in-law's fortunes, deserted to the enemy. Dat. 6.3Id Datamēs ut audīvit, sēnsit, sī in turbam exīsset ab homine tam necessāriō sē relictum, futūrum ut cēterī idem cōnsilium sequerentur;When Datames heard this, he realised that if it got out among the crowd that he had been abandoned by a man so closely connected with him, the rest would follow the same course; Dat. 6.4itaque in vulgus ēdit suō iussū Mithrobarzanem profectum prō perfugā, quō facilius receptus interficeret hostēs: quārē relinquī eum pār nōn esse et omnēs cōnfestim sequī.so he gives out publicly that Mithrobarzanes had gone on his orders as a pretended deserter, so that, once received, he might more easily slaughter the enemy: therefore it was not right that he should be abandoned, and all should follow at once. Dat. 6.4Quod sī animō strēnuō fēcissent, futūrum ut adversāriī nōn possent resistere, cum et intrā vallum et forīs caederentur.If they did this with vigorous spirit, the enemy would be unable to resist, since they would be cut down both inside their rampart and outside it.
Dat. 6.5Hāc rē probātā exercitum ēdūcit, Mithrobarzanem persequitur, quī tantum quod ad hostēs pervēnerat, cum Datamēs signa īnferrī iubet.This being approved, he leads out the army and pursues Mithrobarzanes, who had only just reached the enemy when Datames orders the standards to advance. Dat. 6.6Pisidae novā rē commōtī in opīniōnem addūcuntur perfugās malā fidē compositōque fēcisse, ut receptī maiōrī essent calamitātī.The Pisidians, disturbed by this strange turn, are led to believe that the deserters had acted in bad faith and by arrangement, so that once received they might bring the greater disaster. Dat. 6.6Prīmum eōs adoriuntur.They attack them first. Dat. 6.6Illī cum, quid agerētur aut quārē fieret, ignōrārent, coāctī sunt cum iīs pugnāre, ad quōs trānsierant, ab iīsque stāre, quōs relīquerant: quibus cum neutrī parcerent, celeriter sunt concīsī.These men, since they did not know what was going on or why it was happening, were forced to fight against those to whom they had gone over and to stand with those whom they had left: and as neither side spared them, they were quickly cut to pieces.
Dat. 6.7Reliquōs Pisidās resistentēs Datamēs invādit: prīmō impetū pellit, fugientēs persequitur, multōs interficit, castra hostium capit.Datames attacks the rest of the Pisidians as they resist: he drives them back at the first charge, pursues them as they flee, kills many, and takes the enemy's camp. Dat. 6.8Tālī cōnsiliō ūnō tempore et prōditōrēs perculit et hostēs prōflīgāvit, et, quod ad perniciem suam fuerat cōgitātum, id ad salūtem convertit.By such a plan he at one and the same time struck down the traitors and routed the enemy, and turned what had been designed for his ruin into his salvation. Dat. 6.8Quō neque acūtius ūllīus imperātōris cōgitātum neque celerius factum usquam lēgimus.We have read nowhere of any general's plan more shrewdly conceived or more swiftly carried out than this.