[4] The Volscians were astonished at their boldness and at the madness of their onset and, after holding out for a brief time, were repulsed and at the same time began to retire from the camp; and, as there stood not far from it a hill of moderate height, they hastened up this hill with the intention of both resting themselves and forming in line of battle again. But they were unable to form their lines and to recover themselves, for the enemy followed at their heels, closing their ranks as much as possible in order not to be hurled back while trying to force their way up-hill.
[5] καὶ γίνεται μέγας ἀγὼν ἐπὶ πολὺ μέρος τῆς ἡμέρας, νεκροί τε πίπτουσι πολλοὶ ἀφ᾽ ἑκατέρων. καὶ Οὐολοῦσκοι πλήθει τε ὑπερέχοντες καὶ τὸ ἐκ τοῦ τόπου προσειληφότες ἀσφαλές, οὐδετέρου τούτων οὐδὲν ἀγαθὸν ἀπήλαυσαν, ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὸ τῆς Ῥωμαίων προθυμίας καὶ ἀρετῆς ἐκβιασθέντες τόν τε λόφον ἐξέλιπον καὶ
[5] There followed a mighty struggle which lasted a large part of the day, and many fell on both sides. The Volscians, though superior in numbers and having the added security of their position, got no benefit from either circumstance; but being forced from their position by the ardour and bravery of the Romans, they abandoned the hill and while fleeing toward the camp the greater part of them were killed.
[6] ἐπὶ τὸν χάρακα φεύγοντες οἱ πολλοὶ ἀπέθνησκον. οὐ γὰρ εἴασαν αὐτοὺς οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι διώκοντες, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ ποδὸς ἠκολούθησαν καὶ οὐ πρότερον ἀπετράποντο, ἢ τὴν παρεμβολὴν αὐτῶν ἑλεῖν κατὰ κράτος. γενόμενοι δὲ σωμάτων τ᾽ ἐγκρατεῖς καὶ ὅσα ἐγκατελήφθη τῷ χάρακι καὶ ἵππων καὶ ὅπλων καὶ χρημάτων παμπόλλων κύριοι, τὴν μὲν νύκτα ἐκείνην αὐτόθι κατεστρατοπέδευσαν, τῇ δ᾽ ἐπιούσῃ ἡμέρᾳ τὰ εἰς πολιορκίαν ἐπιτήδεια παρεσκευασμένος ὁ ὕπατος ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀντιατῶν πόλιν οὐ πλείω ἀπέχουσαν τριάκοντα σταδίων ἦγε τὴν δύναμιν.
[6] For the Romans never left them as they pursued, but followed at their heels and did not desist till they had taken their camp by storm. Then, having seized all the persons who had been left behind in the camp and taken possession of the horses and arms and huge quantities of baggage, they encamped there that night. The next day the consul, having prepared everything that was necessary for a siege, marched with his army to Antium, which was not more than thirty stades distant.
[7] ἔτυχον δὲ φυλακῆς ἕνεκα τοῖς Ἀντιάταις Αἰκανῶν τινες ἐπίκουροι παρόντες καὶ φυλάττοντες τὰ τείχη: οἳ τότε δείσαντες τὸ Ῥωμαίων τολμηρὸν δρασμὸν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως [p. 379] ἐπεχείρουν ποιεῖσθαι. γενομένης δὲ τοῖς Ἀντιάταις γνώσεως κωλυόμενοι πρὸς αὐτῶν ἀπιέναι γνώμην ἐποιοῦντο παραδοῦναι Ῥωμαίοις ἐπιοῦσι τὴν πόλιν.
[7] It chanced that some reinforcements sent by the Aequians to the Antiates for their protection were in the city and were guarding the walls. These men, dreading the boldness of the Romans, were now attempting to escape from the city; but being prevented from leaving by the Antiates, who had notice of their intention, they resolved to deliver up the city to the Romans when they should attack it.
[8] τοῦτο μαθόντες ἐκ μηνύσεως οἱ Ἀντιᾶται τῷ τε καιρῷ εἴκουσι, καὶ κοινῇ μετ᾽ ἐκείνων βουλευσάμενοι παραδιδόασι τῷ Κοιντίῳ τὴν πόλιν, ἐφ᾽ ᾧ Αἰκανοὺς μὲν ὑποσπόνδους ἀπελθεῖν, Ἀντιάτας δὲ φρουρὰν δέξασθαι καὶ τὰ κελευόμενα ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ποιεῖν. ἐπὶ τούτοις κύριος γενόμενος τῆς πόλεως ὁ ὕπατος, καὶ λαβὼν ὀψώνιά τε καὶ τἆλλα, ὅσων ἔδει τῇ στρατιᾷ, καὶ φρουρὰν ἐγκαταστήσας, ἀπῆγε τὴν δύναμιν: ἀνθ᾽ ὧν αὐτὸν ἡ βουλὴ ὑπαντήσει τε φιλανθρώπῳ ἐδέξατο, καὶ θριάμβου πομπῇ ἐτίμησεν.
[8] The Antiates, being informed of this, yielded to the situation, and concerting measures with the Aequians, surrendered the city to Quintius upon the terms that the Aequians should have leave to depart under a truce and that the Antiates should receive a garrison and obey the commands of the Romans. The consul, having made himself master of the city upon these terms and having received provisions and everything that was needed for the army, placed a garrison there and then led his forces home. In consideration of his success the senate came out to meet him, gave him a cordial welcome and honoured him with a triumph.
[1] ἐν δὲ τῷ μετὰ τούτους ἔτει ὕπατοι μὲν ἦσαν Τιβέριος Αἰμίλιος τὸ δεύτερον καὶ Κόιντος Φάβιος, ἑνὸς τῶν τριῶν ἀδελφῶν υἱὸς τῶν ἡγησαμένων τε τῆς ἀποσταλείσης φρουρᾶς εἰς Κρεμέραν, καὶ διαφθαρέντων ἐκεῖ σὺν τοῖς πελάταις. ἡ δὲ βουλὴ τῶν δημάρχων ἀνακινούντων πάλιν τὸ πλῆθος ἐπὶ τῇ κληρουχίᾳ, καὶ συναγωνιζομένου θατέρου τῶν ὑπάτων αὐτοῖς Αἰμιλίου δόγμα ἐπεκύρωσε, θεραπεῦσαί τε καὶ ἀναλαβεῖν τοὺς πένητας βουλομένη, διανεῖμαί τινα μοῖραν αὐτοῖς ἐκ τῆς Ἀντιατῶν χώρας, ἣν τῷ προτέρῳ
[59.1] The following year the consuls were Tiberius Aemilius (for the second time) and Quintus Fabius, the son of one of the three brothers who had commanded the garrison that was sent out to Cremera and had perished there together with their clients. As the tribunes, supported by Aemilius, one of the consuls, were again stirring up the populace over the land-allotment, the senate, wishing both to court and to relieve the poor, passed a decree to divide among them a certain part of the territory of the Antiates which they had taken by the sword the year before and now held.
[2] ἔτει δόρατι ἑλόντες κατέσχον. καὶ ἀπεδείχθησαν ἡγεμόνες τῆς κληρουχίας Τίτος Κοίντιος Καπιτωλῖνος, ᾧ παρέδοσαν Ἀντιᾶται σφᾶς αὐτούς, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ Λεύκιος [p. 380] Φούριος καὶ Αὖλος Οὐεργίνιος. ἦν δ᾽ οὐκ ἀγώνισμα πᾶσι τοῖς πολλοῖς καὶ πένησι Ῥωμαίων ἡ διανομὴ τῆς χώρας ὡς ἀπελαυνομένοις τῆς πατρίδος, ὀλίγων τ᾽ ἀπογραψαμένων ἔδοξε τῇ βουλῇ, ἐπειδὴ οὐκ ἀξιόχρεως ἦν ὁ ἀπόστολος, ἐπιτρέψαι Λατίνων τε καὶ Ἑρνίκων τοῖς βουλομένοις τῆς ἀποικίας μετέχειν. οἱ μὲν δὴ εἰς Ἄντιον ἀποσταλέντες κατένεμον τὴν γῆν τοῖς σφετέροις, μοῖράν τινα ἐξ αὐτῆς τοῖς Ἀντιάταις ὑπολειπόμενοι.
[2] Those appointed as leaders in the allotting of the land were Titus Quintius Capitolinus, to whom the Antiates had surrendered themselves, together with Lucius Furius and Aulus Verginius. But the masses and the poor among the Romans were dissatisfied with the proposed assignment of land, feeling that they were being banished from the fatherland; and when few gave in their names, the senate resolved, since the list of colonists was insufficient, to permit such of the Latins and Hernicans as so de
sired to join the colony. The triumvirs, accordingly, who were sent to Antium divided the land among their people, leaving a certain part of it to the Antiates.
[3] ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταξὺ χρόνῳ στρατεία τῶν ὑπάτων ἀμφοτέρων ἐγένετο, Αἰμιλίου μὲν εἰς τὴν Σαβίνων χώραν, Φαβίου δ᾽ εἰς τὴν Αἰκανῶν. καὶ τῷ μὲν Αἰμιλίῳ πολὺν ἐν τῇ πολεμίᾳ μείναντι χρόνον οὐδεμία δύναμις ὑπήντησε μαχουμένη περὶ τῆς γῆς, ἀλλ᾽ ἀδεῶς αὐτὴν κείρας, ἐπειδὴ καθῆκεν ὁ χρόνος τῶν ἀρχαιρεσίων, ἀπῆγε τὰς δυνάμεις. Φαβίῳ δ᾽ Αἰκανοί, πρὶν εἰς ἀνάγκην ἐλθεῖν στρατιᾶς διαφθαρείσης ἢ τειχῶν ἁλισκομένων, ἐπεκηρυκεύσαντο περὶ διαλλαγῶν καὶ φιλίας.
[3] Meanwhile both consuls took the field, Aemilius marching into the country of the Sabines and Fabius into that of the Aequians. Aemilius, though he remained a long time in the enemy’s country, encountered no army ready to fight for it, but ravaged it with impunity; then, when the time for the elections was at hand, he led his forces home. To Fabius the Aequians, even before they were compelled to do so by the destruction of their army or the capture of their walls, sent heralds to sue for a reconciliation and friendship.
[4] ὁ δ᾽ ὕπατος δύο τε μηνῶν τροφὰς τῇ στρατιᾷ καὶ δύο χιτῶνας κατ᾽ ἄνδρα καὶ ἀργύριον εἰς ὀψωνιασμὸν ἑξαμήνου καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο κατήπειγεν εἰσπραξάμενος, ἀνοχὰς ἐποιήσατο πρὸς αὐτούς, ἕως ἂν εἰς Ῥώμην ἀφικόμενοι παρὰ τῆς βουλῆς εὕρωνται τὰς διαλύσεις. ἡ μέντοι βουλὴ ταῦτα μαθοῦσα τῷ Φαβίῳ ἐπέτρεψεν αὐτοκράτορι διαλύσασθαι πρὸς τοὺς Αἰκανούς, [p. 381] ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἂν αὐτὸς προαιρῆται.
[4] The consul, after exacting from them two months’ provisions for his army, two tunics for every man and six months’ pay, and whatever else was urgently required, concluded a truce with them till they should go to Rome and obtain the terms of peace from the senate. The senate, however, when informed of this, gave Fabius full power to make peace with the Aequians upon such terms as he himself should elect.
[5] μετὰ τοῦτο συνθῆκαι γίνονται ταῖς πόλεσι μεσιτεύσαντος αὐτὰς τοῦ ὑπάτου τοιαίδε: Αἰκανοὺς εἶναι Ῥωμαίων ὑπηκόους πόλεις τε καὶ χώρας τὰς ἑαυτῶν ἔχοντας, ἀποστέλλειν δὲ Ῥωμαίοις μηδὲν ὅτι μὴ στρατιάν, ὅταν αὐτοῖς παραγγελῇ, τέλεσι τοῖς ἰδίοις ἐκπέμποντας αὐτάς. ταῦτα συνθέμενος ἀπῆγε τὴν δύναμιν Φάβιος καὶ εἰς τὸν ἐπιόντα ἐνιαυτὸν ἀρχὰς ἅμα τῷ συνυπάτῳ κατέστησεν.
[5] After that the two nations by the mediation of the consul made a treaty as follows: the Aequians were to be subject to the Romans while still possessing their cities and lands, and were not to send anything to the Romans except troops, when so ordered, these to be maintained at their own expense. Fabius, having made this treaty, returned home with his army and together with his fellow consul nominated magistrates for the following year.
[1] ἦσαν δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν ἀποδειχθέντες ὕπατοι Σπόριος Ποστόμιος Ἀλβῖνος καὶ Κόιντος Σερουίλιος Πρίσκος τὸ δεύτερον. ἐπὶ τούτων ἔδοξαν Αἰκανοὶ παραβαίνειν τὰς πρὸς Ῥωμαίους νεωστὶ γενομένας ὁμολογίας ἀπὸ τοιαύτης αἰτίας:
[60.1] The consuls named by them were Spurius Postumius Albinus and Quintus Servilius Priscus, the latter for the second time. In their consulship the Aequians were held to be violating the agreements lately made with the Romans, and this for the following reason.
[2] Ἀντιατῶν ὅσοι μὲν εἶχον ἐφέστια καὶ κλήρους ἔμειναν ἐν τῇ γῇ, τά τ᾽ ἀπομερισθέντα σφίσι καὶ τὰ ὑπὸ τῶν κληρούχων ἀφορισθέντα κτήματα γεωργοῦντες ἐπὶ ῥηταῖς τισι καὶ τεταγμέναις μοίραις, ἃς ἐκ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτοῖς ἐτέλουν: οἷς δ᾽ οὐδὲν τούτων ἦν, ἐξέλιπον τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ὑποδεχομένων αὐτοὺς προθύμως τῶν Αἰκανῶν ἐκεῖθεν ὁρμώμενοι τοὺς Λατίνων ἀγροὺς ἐλῄστευον. ἐκ δὲ τούτου καὶ τῶν Αἰκανῶν ὅσοι τολμηροί τε καὶ ἄποροι ἦσαν συνελάμβανον αὐτοῖς τῶν λῃστηρίων.
[2] All the Antiates who possessed homes and allotments of land remained in the country cultivating not only the lands assigned to them but also those which had been taken from them by the colonists, tilling the latter on the basis of certain fixed shares which they paid to the colonists out of the produce. But those who had no such possessions left the city, and being heartily welcomed by the Aequians, were using their country as a base from which to ravage the fields of the Latins. As a consequence, such of the Aequians too as were bold and needy joined with them in their raids.
[3] ταῦτα Λατίνων ἀποδυρομένων ἐπὶ τῆς βουλῆς καὶ ἀξιούντων ἢ στρατιὰν πέμπειν ἢ συγχωρῆσαι σφίσιν αὐτοῖς τοὺς ἄρξαντας πολέμου ἀμύνασθαι, μαθόντες οἱ σύνεδροι στρατιὰν [p. 382] μὲν οὔτ᾽ αὐτοὶ ἐψηφίσαντο πέμπειν οὔτε Λατίνοις ἐπέτρεψαν ἐξάγειν, πρεσβευτὰς δ᾽ ἑλόμενοι τρεῖς, ὧν ἡγεῖτο Κόιντος Φάβιος ὁ τὰς πρὸς τὸ ἔθνος συνθήκας ποιησάμενος, ἀπέστειλαν ἐντολὰς αὐτοῖς δόντες πυνθάνεσθαι παρὰ τῶν ἡγουμένων τοῦ ἔθνους, πότερα κοινῇ γνώμῃ τὰ λῃστήρια ἐξαποστέλλουσιν εἴς τε τὴν τῶν συμμάχων καὶ εἰς τὴν τῶν Ῥωμαίων γῆν — ἐγένοντο γάρ τινες καὶ εἰς αὐτὴν καταδρομαὶ τῶν φυγάδων — ἢ τῶν πραττομένων οὐδενός ἐστι τὸ κοινὸν αἴτιον: καὶ ἐὰν φῶσιν ἰδιωτῶν ἔργα εἶναι μὴ ἐπιτρέψαντος τοῦ δήμου, τά θ᾽ ἡρπασμένα ἀπαιτεῖν καὶ τοὺς ἐργασαμένους τἀδικήματα ἐκδότους αἰτεῖν.
[3] When the Latins complained before the senate of their situation and asked them either to send an army to their relief or to permit them to take vengeance themselves on those who had begun the war, the senators, on hearing their complaint, neither voted to send an army themselves nor permitted the Latins to lead out theirs, but choosing three ambassadors, of whom Quintus Fabius, who had concluded the treaty with the Aequian nation, was the leader, they sent them out with instructions to inquire of the leaders of the nation whether it was by general consent that they were sending out these bands of brigands into the territory of the allies and also into that of the Romans — for there had been some raids into the latter too by the fugitive Antiates — or whether the state had no hand in any of the things that were going on; and if they should say that the acts complained of were the work of private persons without the consent of the people, they were to demand restitution of the stolen property and ask for the surrender of those who had committed the wrongs.
[4] ἀφικομένων δὲ τῶν πρεσβευτῶν ἀκούσαντες τοὺς λόγους οἱ Α
ἰκανοὶ πλαγίας αὐτοῖς ἔδοσαν ἀποκρίσεις, τὸ μὲν ἔργον οὐκ ἀπὸ κοινῆς λέγοντες γνώμης γεγονέναι, τοὺς δὲ δράσαντας οὐκ ἀξιοῦντες ἐκδιδόναι, πόλιν τ᾽ ἀπολωλεκότας καὶ ἀλήτας γεγονότας σφῶν τ᾽ ἐν τῇ πενίᾳ
[4] Upon the arrival of the ambassadors the Aequians, having heard their demands, gave them an evasive answer, saying, indeed, that the plundering had not been done by public consent, yet refusing to deliver up the perpetrators, who, after losing their own city and becoming wanderers, had in their destitution become suppliants of the Aequians.
[5] ἱκέτας. ἐφ᾽ οἷς ὁ Φάβιος ἀγανακτῶν καὶ τὰς ψευσθείσας πρὸς αὐτῶν ὁμολογίας ἀνακαλούμενος, ὡς εἶδεν εἰρωνευομένους τοὺς Αἰκανοὺς καὶ εἰς βουλὴν χρόνον αἰτουμένους ξενισμοῦ τε χάριν ἐπικατέχοντας αὐτόν, ὑπέμεινέ τε κατοπτεῦσαι τὰ ἐν τῇ πόλει πράγματα βουλόμενος: καὶ διεξιὼν ἅπαντα τόπον κατὰ πρόφασιν [p. 383] θεωρίας δημόσιόν τε καὶ ἱερόν, τά τ᾽ ἐργαστήρια πλήρη ὁρῶν ἅπαντα πολεμικῶν ὅπλων, τῶν μὲν ἤδη συντετελεσμένων, τῶν δ᾽ ἔτι ἐν χερσὶν ὄντων, ἔγνω τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν.
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