[And this] command having been obeyed very carefully, when any cohort had gone out from the circle and had made an attack, the enemies were fleeing very quickly. Meanwhile it was necessary that this part/area be made bare and that weapons be received from the open side/flank. Again when[ever] they had begun to reutrn to that place from which they had gone out, both by those who had yielded and by those who had stood closest [to them] they were being surrounded, but if however they wished to keep the place, neither was the place left [available] for bravery, nor were they while crowded together able to avoid the weapons hurled by such a great multitude.

Nevertheless, although distressed with so many disadvantages, with many wounds received,they were withstanding and with a great part of the day spent, although it was fought from dawn to the eighth hour, they were doing nothing which was unworthy of them.

Then each thigh for Titus Balventius, who had led as first centurion the previous year, a brave man and of great authority, is pierced by a javelin; Quintus Lucanius of the same rank fighting very bravely is slain while he comes to aid [his] surrounded son; Lucus Cotta the ambassador is wounded while encouraging all the cohorts and ranks directly in the face with a slingshot.