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- Titi Livi ab urbe condita libri editionem priman, Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.
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The senate decides to form an alliance with the Lucanians and declare war on the Samnites; the consul Scipio wins a victory in Etruria, while Fulvius captures Bovianum and Aufidena in Samnium.
Brevis consultatio senatus fuit: ad unum omnes iungendum foedus cum Lucanis resque repetendas1 ab Samnitibus censent.
The consultation of the senate was brief: to a man, all voted that a treaty should be joined with the Lucanians and restitution demanded from the Samnites.
benigne responsum Lucanis ictumque foedus; fetiales missi, qui Samnitem decedere agro sociorum ac deducere exercitum finibus Lucanis iuberent, quibus obviam2 missi ab Samnitibus, qui denuntiarent, si quod adissent in Samnio concilium, haud inviolatos abituros.
A gracious answer was given to the Lucanians, and the treaty was struck; fetials were sent to order the Samnite to depart from the territory of the allies and to lead his army away from the Lucanian borders; to meet them, messengers were sent by the Samnites to warn that, if they entered any council in Samnium, they would not depart unharmed.
haec postquam audita sunt Romae, bellum Samnitibus et patres censuerunt et populus iussit. consules inter se provincias partiti sunt: Scipioni Etruria, Fulvio Samnites obvenerunt, diversique ad suum quisque bellum proficiscuntur. Scipioni segne bellum et simile prioris anni militiae expectanti3 hostes ad Volaterras instructo agmine occurrerunt.
After these things were heard at Rome, both the senators voted for war with the Samnites and the people ordered it. The consuls divided the provinces between themselves: Etruria fell to Scipio, the Samnites to Fulvius, and they set out in different directions, each to his own war. For Scipio, a sluggish war and one similar to the military service of the previous year was in store; as he was expecting this, the enemy met him with their army in battle array near Volaterrae.
pugnatum maiore parte diei magna utrimque caede; nox incertis,4 qua data victoria esset, intervenit. lux insequens victorem victumque ostendit; nam Etrusci silentio noctis castra reliquerunt.
The battle was fought for the greater part of the day with great slaughter on both sides; night intervened while it was uncertain to whom victory had been given. The following light showed the victor and the vanquished; for the Etruscans left their camp in the silence of the night.
Romanus egressus in aciem ubi profectione hostium concessam victoriam videt, progressus ad castra vacuis cum plurima praeda — nam et stativa et trepide deserta fuerant — potitur.
The Roman, having gone out into line of battle, when he saw that victory had been conceded by the departure of the enemy, advanced to the camp and took possession of it, empty as it was, with very much plunder—for it had been a permanent camp and abandoned in panic.
inde in Faliscum agrum copiis reductis cum inpedimenta Faleriis cum modico praesidio reliquisset, expedito agmine ad depopulandos hostium fines incedit.
Then, having led his forces back into the Faliscan territory, when he had left the baggage at Falerii with a moderate guard, he advanced with an unencumbered army to lay waste the borders of the enemy.
omnia ferro ignique vastantur; praedae undique actae. nec solum modo vastum hosti relictum sed castellis etiam vicisque inlatus ignis; urbibus oppugnandis temperatum,5 in quas timor Etruscos conpulerat.
All things were devastated with fire and sword; plunder was driven from all sides. Nor was only a waste left to the enemy, but fire was also set to strongholds and villages; they abstained from attacking the cities, into which fear had driven the Etruscans.
Cn. Fulvi consulis clara pugna in Samnio ad Bovianum haudquaquam ambiguae victoriae fuit. Bovianum inde adgressus nec ita multo post Aufidenam vi cepit.
The famous battle of the consul Gnaeus Fulvius in Samnium near Bovianum was of a victory by no means doubtful. Having then attacked Bovianum, not so long after he took Aufidena by force.
- 10.12.1iungendum foedus... resque repetendas
Gerundives expressing necessity or obligation. Here they form accusative-and-infinitive phrases (with the omission of "esse") serving as the object of the main verb "censent" (they vote).
- 10.12.2quibus obviam
"quibus" is a relative pronoun linking to the preceding sentence (referring to "fetiales") in the dative case, governed by the adverb "obviam" (to meet).
- 10.12.4expectanti
A present participle in the dative case agreeing with "Scipioni" at the end of the previous section (§10.12.3). It functions as the dative object of the main verb "occurrerunt" (met) in 12.4.
- 10.12.5incertis
Can be interpreted either as a dative ("night intervened for them, who were uncertain...") or an ablative absolute ("while things were uncertain..."). Here it is taken as a dative of the adjective used substantively, accompanied by the indirect question clause introduced by "qua".
- 10.12.8urbibus oppugnandis temperatum
Impersonal passive "temperatum [est]" (moderation was exercised / they abstained). Since "temperare" governs the dative, the noun-gerundive phrase "urbibus oppugnandis" is in the dative case.
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