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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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In the war against the Aequi, a sudden storm forces the Romans to withdraw from attacking the camp, while in the campaign against the Sabines, the consul Aemilius devastates the land but leaves the war unfinished after the enemy retreats to safer ground.
eodem anno Valerius consul cum exercitu in Aequos profectus cum hostem ad proelium elicere non posset, castra oppugnare est adortus. prohibuit foeda tempestas cum grandine ac tonitribus caelo deiecta.
In the same year, the consul Valerius, having set out with his army against the Aequi, since he could not entice the enemy into battle, attempted to assault their camp. A terrible storm with hail and thunder, cast down from the sky, prevented this.
admirationem deinde auxit signo receptui dato adeo tranquilla serenitas reddita, ut velut numine aliquo defensa castra oppugnare iterum religio fuerit. omnis ira belli ad populationem agri vertit. alter consul Aemilius in Sabinis bellum gessit.
The wonder was then increased because, when the signal for retreat was given, so tranquil a serenity returned that to attack again a camp defended as if by some divine power became a matter of religious scruple. All the fury of war was turned to the devastation of the countryside. The other consul, Aemilius, conducted the war in the territory of the Sabines.
et ibi, quia hostis moenibus se tenebat, vastati agri sunt.
And there, because the enemy kept themselves within their walls, the fields were devastated.
incendiis deinde non villarum modo sed etiam vicorum, quibus frequenter habitabatur,1 Sabini exciti cum praedatoribus occurrissent, ancipiti proelio digressi postero die rettulere castra in tutiora loca.
Then, aroused by the burning not only of country-houses but also of villages, which were thickly populated, the Sabines came out to meet the plunderers; having parted after an indecisive battle, they moved their camp on the following day to safer positions.
id satis consuli visum, cur pro victo relinqueret hostem, integro inde decedens bello.2
This seemed to the consul a sufficient reason why he should leave the enemy as if defeated, departing thence with the war still unfinished.
- 2.62.4quibus frequenter habitabatur
The passive imperfect of the intransitive verb habitare (to dwell) is used impersonally here to mean "in which it was thickly inhabited" (i.e., "which were thickly populated"). The relative pronoun quibus functions as an ablative of place where without a preposition.
- 2.62.5integro inde decedens bello
The phrase integro... bello is an ablative absolute using the adjective integer ("untouched," "undecided"), denoting the attendant circumstance ("with the war still unfinished") accompanying the present participle decedens ("departing"), whose subject is the consul Aemilius.