[5] Fabius resented this and appealed to the treaty which they had violated; but seeing that the Aequians were dissembling, asking time for deliberation and seeking to detain him under the pretence of hospitality, he remained there in order to spy upon what was going on in the city. And visiting every place, both profane and sacred, on the pretext of seeing the sights, and observing the shops full of weapons of war, some already completed and others still in the making, he perceived their intention.
[6] καὶ ἀφικόμενος εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην ἀπήγγειλε πρὸς τὴν βουλήν, ἅ τ᾽ ἤκουσε καὶ ἃ εἶδε. κἀκείνη οὐδὲν ἔτι ἐνδοιάσασα τοὺς εἰρηνοδίκας ἐψηφίσατο πέμπειν καταγγελοῦντας Αἰκανοῖς τὸν πόλεμον, ἐὰν μὴ τούς τ᾽ Ἀντιατῶν φυγάδας ἀπελάσωσιν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως καὶ δίκας τοῖς ἠδικημένοις ὑπόσχωνται. οἱ δ᾽ Αἰκανοὶ θρασυτέρας πρὸς τοὺς ἄνδρας ἐποιήσαντο τὰς ἀποκρίσεις, καὶ τὸν πόλεμον οὐκ ἀκούσιοι δέχεσθαι ὡμολόγησαν.
[6] And returning to Rome, he reported to the senate what he had heard and what he had seen. The senate, without hesitating any longer, voted to send the fetiales to declare war against the Aequians unless they expelled the Antiate fugitives from the city and promised satisfaction to the injured. The Aequians gave a rather bold answer to the fetiales and admitted that they not unwillingly accepted war.
[7] ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὐκ ἐξεγένετο Ῥωμαίοις στρατιὰν ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἀποστεῖλαι, εἴτε τοῦ δαιμονίου κωλύοντος, εἴτε διὰ τὰς νόσους, αἳ κατέσχον τὴν πληθὺν ἐπὶ πολὺ μέρος τοῦ ἔτους: ἀλλὰ φυλακῆς ἕνεκα τῶν συμμάχων ὀλίγη τις ἐξελθοῦσα δύναμις, ἧς ἡγεῖτο Κόιντος Σερουίλιος ἅτερος τῶν ὑπάτων, ἐν τοῖς Λατίνων ὅροις διέτριψεν.
[7] But the Romans were unable to send an army against them that year, either because Heaven forbade it or because of the maladies with which the population was afflicted during a great part of the year; however, for the protection of their allies a small army marched forth under Quintus Servilius, one of the consuls, and remained on the frontiers of the Latins.
[8] ἐν δὲ τῇ πόλει τὸν νεὼν τοῦ Πιστίου Διὸς Σπόριος Ποστόμιος ὁ συνύπατος αὐτοῦ καθιέρωσε μηνὸς Ἰουνίου ταῖς καλουμέναις Νώναις ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἐνυαλίου λόφου, κατασκευασθέντα μὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ τελευταίου βασιλέως Ταρκυνίου, τῆς δὲ νομιζομένης παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις ἀνιερώσεως οὐ τυχόντα ὑπ᾽ ἐκείνου. τότε δὲ τῇ βουλῇ δόξαν ὁ Ποστόμιος ἔλαβεν [p. 384] αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπιγραφήν. ἄλλο δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἐπὶ τῶν ὑπάτων τούτων λόγου ἄξιον ἐπράχθη.
[8] At Rome his colleague, Spurius Postumius, consecrated the temple of Dius Fidius upon the Quirinal hill on the day called the nones of June. This temple had been built by Tarquinius, the last king, but had not received at his hands the dedication custom among the Romans. At this time by order of the senate the name of Postumius was inscribed on the temple. Nothing else worth relating happened during that consulship.
[1] ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ἐνάτης καὶ ἑβδομηκοστῆς ὀλυμπιάδος, ἣν ἐνίκα Ξενοφῶν Κορίνθιος ἄρχοντος Ἀθήνησιν Ἀρχεδημίδου, παραλαμβάνουσι τὴν ὑπατείαν Τῖτος Κοίντιος Καπιτωλῖνος καὶ Κόιντος Φάβιος Οὐιβουλανός: Κοίντιος μὲν τὸ τρίτον ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀποδειχθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου, Φάβιος δὲ τὸ δεύτερον. οἷς ἡ βουλὴ ἀμφοτέροις στρατιὰς μεγάλας καὶ εὖ παρεσκευασμένας παραδοῦσα ἐξέπεμψε.
[61.1] In the seventy-ninth Olympiad (the one at which Xenophon of Corinth won the foot-race), Archedemides being archon at Athens, Titus Quintius Capitolinus and Quintus Fabius Vibulanus succeeded to the consulship, Quintius being elected by the people to that office for the third time and Fabius for the second. Both of them the senate sent into the field, giving them large and well-equipped armies.
[2] Κοίντιος μὲν οὖν ἐτάχθη φυλάττειν τὴν σφετέραν γῆν, ὅση τοῖς πολεμίοις ὅμορος ἦν, Φάβιος δὲ τὴν Αἰκανῶν δῃοῦν: καὶ καταλαμβάνει τοὺς Αἰκανοὺς ἐπὶ τοῖς μεθορίοις ὑπομένοντας αὐτὸν σὺν δυνάμει πολλῇ. καὶ ἐπειδὴ τὰς παρεμβολὰς ἐν τοῖς κρατίστοις ἑκάτεροι χωρίοις κατεστήσαντο, προῄεσαν εἰς τὸ πεδίον Αἰκανῶν προκαλεσαμένων καὶ ἀρξάντων τῆς μάχης, καὶ διέμειναν ἐπὶ πολὺ τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκθύμως καὶ φιλοπόνως ἀγωνιζόμενοι, καὶ τὸ νικᾶν οὐ παρ᾽ ἄλλον τινὰ ἢ παρ᾽ ἑαυτὸν ἕκαστος τιθέμενος.
[2] Quintius was ordered to defend the part of their territory which adjoined that of the enemy, and Fabius to plunder the country of the Aequians. Fabius found the Aequians waiting for him on their own borders with a large force. After both sides had placed their camps in the most advantageous positions, they advanced into the plain, the Aequians being the challengers and beginning the battle; and they continued fighting spiritedly and with perseverance for a great part of the day, each man placing his hopes of victory in no one but himself.
[3] ὡς δὲ τὰ ξίφη τοῖς πλείοσιν αὐτῶν διὰ τὰς συνεχεῖς πληγὰς ἄχρηστα ἐγεγόνει, σημηνάντων τὸ ἀνακλητικὸν τῶν ἡγεμόνων ἀπῆλθον ἐπὶ τοὺς χάρακας. καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο τὸ ἔργον ἀγὼν μὲν ἐκ παρατάξεως οὐκέτ᾽ αὐτῶν ἐγένετο, ἀκροβολισμοὶ δέ τινες συμπλοκαὶ ψιλῶν περί τε ὕδασι καὶ ἐν ἀγορᾶς παραπομπαῖς συνεχεῖς: κἀν τούτοις μέντοι τὰ πολλὰ
[3] But when the swords of the greater part of them had become useless from repeated blows, the generals ordered the retreat to be sounded and the men returned to their camps. After this action no pitched battle was again fought by them, but there were sundry skirmishes and constant clashes of the light-armed troops as they went to fetch water and escorted convoys of provisions; and in these encounters, moreover, they were as a result evenly matched.
[4] ἦσαν ἰσόρροποι. ἐν ᾧ δὲ ταῦτ᾽ ἐγίνετο χρόνῳ, μοῖρά [p. 385] τις ἀπὸ τῆς Αἰκανῶν στρατιᾶς παρελθοῦσα καθ᾽ ἑτέρας ὁδοὺς ἀφυλάκτους ἐνέβαλεν εἰς τὴν Ῥωμαίων γῆν, ἣ πλεῖστον ἀφειστήκει τῆς ὁμόρου καὶ διὰ τοῦτ᾽ ἀφύλακτος ἦν: ἐξ ἧς ἀνθρώπους τε πολλοὺς συνήρπασε καὶ χρήματα, λαθοῦσά τε τοὺς σὺν τῷ Κοιντίῳ περιπόλους τῆς σφετέρας γῆς ἀπῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα. τοῦτο συνεχῶς ἐγίνετο καὶ πολλὴν παρεῖχεν αἰσχύνην τοῖς ὑπάτοις.
[4] While this was going on, a detachment of the Aequians’ army, marching by other roads, made an irruption into the part of the Roman territory which lay at a very great distance from the common boundary and was for that reason unguarded; and seizi
ng there many persons and goods, they returned to their homes without being discovered by the patrols under Quintius who were guarding their own territory. This happened continually and brought much disgrace upon the consuls.
[5] ἔπειτα μαθὼν διὰ κατασκόπων τε καὶ αἰχμαλώτων ὁ Φάβιος ἐξεληλυθυῖαν ἐκ τοῦ χάρακος τῶν Αἰκανῶν τὴν κρατίστην δύναμιν, ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ καταλιπὼν τοὺς πρεσβυτάτους αὐτὸς ἐξῆλθε νύκτωρ ἱππέων ἐπαγόμενος καὶ τοῦ πεζοῦ τὸ ἀκμαιότατον. οἱ μὲν οὖν Αἰκανοὶ διηρπακότες τὰ χωρία, οἷς ἐνέβαλον, ἀπῄεσαν ἐπαγόμενοι πολλὰς ὠφελείας, ὁ δὲ Φάβιος οὐ πολὺ προελθοῦσιν αὐτοῖς ἐπιφαίνεται καὶ τήν τε λείαν ἀφαιρεῖται καὶ μάχῃ τοὺς ὑπομείναντας νικᾷ γενομένους ἄνδρας ἀγαθούς: οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ σποράδες ἐμπειρίᾳ ὁδῶν λαθόντες τοὺς διώκοντας κατέφυγον εἰς τὸν χάρακα.
[5] Later Fabius, learning through scouts and prisoners that the best of the Aequians’ forces had gone out of their camp, set out himself in the night with the flower of the horse and foot, leaving the oldest men in the camp. The Aequians, after plundering the regions which they had invaded, were returning home with many spoils. But they had not proceeded far when Fabius suddenly appeared before them, took away their booty, and defeated in battle those who valiantly withstood him; the rest scattered, and being familiar with the roads, escaped their pursuers and fled to their camp for refuge.
[6] ἐπεὶ δὲ ταύτῃ ἀνεκρούσθησαν οἱ Αἰκανοὶ τῇ συμφορᾷ παρὰ δόξαν σφίσι γενομένῃ, λύσαντες τὴν παρεμβολὴν ὑπὸ νύκτα ᾤχοντο καὶ οὐκέτι τὸ λοιπὸν ἐξῄεσαν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως: ἀλλ᾽ ἠνείχοντο σῖτόν τε, ὃς ἐν ἀκμῇ τότε ἦν, συγκομιζόμενον ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων καὶ ἀγέλας βοσκημάτων ἀπελαυνομένας ὁρῶντες, χρήματά τε διαρπαζόμενα καὶ αὐλὰς πυρὶ διδομένας καὶ αἰχμαλώτους πολλοὺς ἀγομένους. τοῦτο διαπραξάμενος [p. 386] ὁ Φάβιος, ἐπειδὴ παραδοῦναι τὰς ἀρχὰς ἑτέροις ἔδει, τὴν δύναμιν ἀναστήσας ἀπῆγε: τὸ δ᾽ αὐτὸ καὶ Κοίντιος ἐποίει.
[6] When the Aequians had been checked by this unexpected disaster, they broke camp and departed as night came on; and after that they ventured out no more from their city, but submitted to seeing their corn, which was then ripe, carried off by the enemy, their herds of cattle driven away, their effects seized, their farm-houses given to the flames and many prisoners led away. After these achievements Fabius, the time having come for the consuls to hand over their power to their successors, took his army and returned home; and Quintius did the same.
[1] ἀφικόμενοι δ᾽ εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην ἀπέδειξαν ὑπάτους Αὖλον Ποστόμιον Ἄλβον καὶ Σερούιον Φούριον. οἱ μὲν δὴ νεωστὶ παρειλήφεσαν τὴν ἀρχήν, παρὰ δὲ τῶν συμμάχων Λατίνων ἄγγελοι Ῥωμαίοις κατὰ σπουδὴν διαπεμφθέντες ἧκον. οὗτοι καταστάντες ἐπὶ τὴν βουλὴν διεσάφουν Ἀντιατῶν τὰ πράγματα οὐ βέβαια εἶναι, κρύφα τε διαπρεσβευομένων πρὸς αὐτοὺς Αἰκανῶν καὶ ἀναφανδὸν εἰσιόντων εἰς τὴν πόλιν ἀγορᾶς προφάσει πολλῶν Οὐολούσκων, οὓς ἐπήγοντο οἱ πρότερον ἐκλιπόντες τὴν πόλιν Ἀντιατῶν, ὅτ᾽ ἐκληρουχεῖτο διὰ πενίαν καὶ πρὸς Αἰκανοὺς ἀπαυτομολήσαντες,
[62.1] When they came to Rome, they named Aulus Postumius Albus and Servius Furius consuls. These had just taken over their magistracy when messengers from the Latin allies, sent in haste to the Romans, arrived. These, being introduced into the senate, informed them that the situation at Antium was precarious, since the Aequians were sending envoys thither in secret and large numbers of Volscians were resorting to the city openly on the pretext of trading; they were being brought there by those who had left Antium earlier because of poverty, when their lands were allotted among the Roman colonists, and had deserted to the Aequians, as I have related.
[2] ὥσπερ ἔφην. συνδιεφθάρθαι τε τοῖς ἐπιχωρίοις ἅμα ἤγγελλον καὶ τῶν ἐποίκων συχνούς: καὶ εἰ μὴ προκαταληφθήσονται φυλακῇ ἀξιόχρεῳ, ἀναστήσεσθαί τινα ἔλεγον κἀκεῖθεν ἀπροσδόκητον Ῥωμαίοις πόλεμον. τούτων οὐ πολλῷ ὕστερον ἕτεροι πεμφθέντες ὑφ᾽ Ἑρνίκων ἤγγελλον ἐξεληλυθέναι μεγάλην δύναμιν Αἰκανῶν καὶ ἐγκαθεζομένην ἐν τῇ σφετέρᾳ γῇ φέρειν τε πάντα καὶ ἄγειν, στρατεύειν δ᾽ ἅμα τοῖς Αἰκανοῖς καὶ Οὐολούσκους τὴν πλείω τοῦ στρατοῦ μοῖραν παρεχομένους.
[2] At the same time they reported that along with the natives many also of the colonists had been corrupted, and that unless their pursue were forestalled by means of an adequate garrison an unexpected war would break out in that quarter also against the Romans. Not long after this other messengers, sent by the Hernicans, brought word that a large force of Aequians had set out and now lay encamped in the hernican’s country, where they were plundering everything, and that the Volscians were joining with the Aequians in the expedition, contributing the larger part of the army.
[3] πρὸς ταῦτ᾽ ἐψηφίσατο ἡ βουλὴ τοῖς μὲν Ἀντιατῶν ταράττουσι τὰ πράγματα — ἧκον γὰρ ἀπολογησόμενοί τινες ἐξ αὐτῶν καὶ καταφανεῖς ἐγένοντο [p. 387] οὐδὲν ὑγιὲς φρονοῦντες — φυλακὴν ἑτέραν πέμψαι, ἣ ἔμελλε δι᾽ ἀσφαλείας ἕξειν τὴν πόλιν: ἐπὶ δ᾽ Αἰκανοὺς ἄγειν τὴν στρατιὰν τὸν ἕτερον τῶν ὑπάτων Σερούιον Φούριον: καὶ ἐγίνετο ταχεῖα ἀμφοῖν ἡ ἔξοδος.
[3] In view of all this the senate voted, first, with reference to those among the Antiates who were creating the disturbances — for some of them had come to Rome to defend their conduct and had made it clear that they had no honest purpose — to send another garrison to keep the city safe; and second, with reference to the Aequians, that Servius Furius, one of the consuls, should lead the army against them; and both forces promptly set out.
[4] οἱ δ᾽ Αἰκανοὶ μαθόντες ἐξεληλυθυῖαν τὴν Ῥωμαίων στρατιάν, ἀναστάντες ἐκ τῆς Ἑρνίκων ἐχώρουν αὐτοῖς ὁμόσε. ἐπεὶ δ᾽ εἶδον ἀλλήλους, ἐκείνην μὲν τὴν ἡμέραν οὐ πολὺ διαστάντες κατεστρατοπέδευσαν, τῇ δ᾽ ἑξῆς ἐπὶ τὸν χάρακα τῶν Ῥωμαίων οἱ πολέμιοι ἧκον διάπειραν αὐτῶν τῆς γνώμης ληψόμενοι.
[4] The Aequians, upon learning that the Roman army had taken the field, departed from the country of the Hernicans and went to meet it. When the two armies came in sight of one another, they encamped that day not far apart; and the next day the enemy advanced toward the camp of the Romans in order to ascertain their intentions.
[5] ὡς δ᾽ οὐκ ἐξῄεσαν εἰς μάχην, ἀκροβολισμοῖς χρ�
�σάμενοι καὶ οὐδὲν ἀξιόλογον δράσαντες σὺν μεγάλῳ αὐχήματι ἀπῆλθον. ὁ μέντοι Ῥωμαίων ὕπατος ἐκλιπὼν τὸν χάρακα τῇ ἐπιούσῃ: τὸ γὰρ χωρίον οὐ λίαν ἀσφαλὲς ἦν: μετεστρατοπεδεύσατο ἐν ἐπιτηδειοτέρῳ, ἔνθα τάφρον τ᾽ ὠρύξατο βαθυτέραν καὶ χάρακα ἐβάλετο ὑψηλότερον. τοῖς δὲ πολεμίοις ταῦθ᾽ ὁρῶσι πολὺ θράσος προσεγένετο: καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον, ἐπειδὴ σύμμαχος αὐτοῖς ἀφίκετο στρατιὰ παρὰ τοῦ Οὐολούσκων τε καὶ Αἰκανῶν ἔθνους, οὐδὲν ἔτι διαμελλήσαντες ἐπῆγον τῷ Ῥωμαίων χάρακι.
[5] Then, when the Romans did not come out to fight, they engaged in skirmishes, and without performing any noteworthy exploit retired with great boasting. But the Roman consul on the following day left his entrenchments — for the place was not very safe — and shifted his camp to a more advantageous position, where he dug a deeper trench and threw up a higher rampart. The enemy, seeing this, were greatly emboldened, and still more so when an army came to their assistance from both the Volscian and the Aequian nations; so that without further delay they led their forces against the camp of the Romans.
[1] ὁ δ᾽ ὕπατος ἐνθυμούμενος, ὅτι οὐκ ἀξιόμαχος ἔσται ἡ σὺν αὐτῷ δύναμις ἀγωνιζομένη πρὸς ἀμφότερα τὰ ἔθνη, πέμπει τινὰς ἐκ τῶν ἱππέων γράμματα εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην κομίζοντας, δι᾽ ὧν ἠξίου ταχεῖαν αὐτοῖς ἐλθεῖν ἐπικουρίαν, ὡς κινδυνευούσης ὅλης διαφθαρῆναι τῆς σὺν αὐτῷ στρατιᾶς.
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