Histories 2.43

Hist. 2.43.1Nōn ut ad pugnam sed ad bellandum profectī cōnfluentīs Padī et Ardae flūminum, sēdecim inde mīlium spatiō distantīs, petēbant.Setting out as if not for a battle but for a campaign, they were making for the confluence of the Po and the Arda, sixteen miles away from there. Hist. 2.43.1Celsō et Paulīnō abnuentibus mīlitem itinere fessum, sarcinīs gravem obicere hostī, nōn omissūrō quō minus expedītus et vix quattuor mīlia passuum prōgressus aut incompositōs in agmine aut dispersōs et vallum mōlientīs adgrederētur, Titiānus et Proculus, ubi cōnsiliīs vincerentur, ad iūs imperiī trānsībant.Though Celsus and Paulinus refused to expose soldiers tired from the march and weighed down with baggage to an enemy who, unencumbered and having advanced barely four miles, would not fail to attack them either in disorder on the march or scattered and labouring on the rampart, Titianus and Proculus, whenever they were beaten in argument, resorted to their right of command. Hist. 2.43.1Aderat sānē citus equō Numida cum atrōcibus mandātīs, quibus Othō increpitā ducum segnitia rem in discrīmen mittī iubēbat, aeger morā et speī impatiēns.A Numidian, it is true, arrived at a gallop with harsh orders, in which Otho, rebuking the generals' sluggishness, commanded them to put the matter to the test, sick as he was of delay and impatient of suspense.