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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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Since the Aequi suddenly captured the citadel of Tusculum, Consul Fabius made a rapid march to besiege them, eventually forcing them to surrender by hunger and annihilating them on Mount Algidus. The other consul, Cornelius, also set out, and together they ravaged enemy territories, while Livy discusses conflicting historical accounts regarding a revolt of Antium.
dum ad Antium haec geruntur, interim Aequi robore iuventutis praemisso arcem Tusculanam inproviso nocte capiunt;
While these things were being done at Antium, in the meantime the Aequi, having sent ahead the flower of their youth, captured the citadel of Tusculum by surprise at night;
reliquo exercitu haud procul moenibus Tusculi considunt, ut distenderent hostium copias. haec celeriter Romam, ab Roma in castra Antium perlata movent Romanos haud secus, quam si Capitolium captum nuntiaretur; adeo et recens erat Tusculanorum meritum, et similitudo ipsa periculi reposcere latum auxilium1 videbatur.
with the rest of their army they took up a position not far from the walls of Tusculum, in order to distract the enemy’s forces. These tidings, quickly carried to Rome, and from Rome to the camp at Antium, moved the Romans no differently than if it were announced that the Capitol had been captured; so recent was the service of the Tusculans, and the very similarity of the danger seemed to demand that the aid they had previously rendered should be repaid.
Fabius omissis omnibus praedam ex castris raptim Antium convehit; ibi modico praesidio relicto citatum agmen Tusculum rapit. nihil praeter arma et quod cocti ad manum fuit cibi ferre militi licuit;
Fabius, putting aside all other matters, hurriedly conveyed the booty from the camp to Antium; leaving a moderate garrison there, he hurried his army at a rapid march to Tusculum. The soldiers were allowed to carry nothing except their arms and whatever cooked food happened to be at hand;
commeatum ab Roma consul Cornelius subvehit. aliquot menses Tusculi bellatum. parte exercitus consul castra Aequorum oppugnabat, partem Tusculanis dederat ad arcem recuperandam. vi numquam eo subiri potuit;2 fames postremo inde detraxit hostem.
Consul Cornelius brought up provisions from Rome. For several months the war was waged at Tusculum. With a part of the army, the consul was besieging the camp of the Aequi; a part he had given to the Tusculans for recovering the citadel. It was never possible to ascend there by force; in the end, hunger forced the enemy down from it.
qua postquam ventum ad extremum est,3 inermes nudique omnes sub iugum ab Tusculanis missi. hos ignominiosa fuga domum se recipientis Romanus consul in Algido consecutus ad unum omnes occidit. victor ad Columen —
When matters had come to the last extremity there, they were all sent under the yoke, unarmed and despoiled, by the Tusculans. As they were making their way home in ignominious flight, the Roman consul overtook them on Mount Algidus and slaughtered them all to a man. Returning victorious to Columen —
id loco nomen est — exercitu reducto castra locat. et alter consul, postquam moenibus iam Romanis pulso hoste periculum esse desierat, et ipse ab Roma profectus.
which is the name of the place — he pitched his camp after leading back his army. The other consul also, after the enemy had been driven off and the danger to the Roman walls had ceased to exist, himself set out from Rome.
ita bifariam consules ingressi hostium fines ingenti certamine hinc Volscos, hinc Aequos populantur. eodem anno descisse Antiates apud plerosque auctores invenio; L. Cornelium consulem id bellum gessisse oppidumque cepisse. certum adfirmare, quia nulla apud vetustiores scriptores eius rei mentio est, non ausim.4
Thus, entering the enemy’s territory in two divisions, the consuls, with great rivalry, devastated the Volsci on one side and the Aequi on the other. In the same year, I find in most authors that the Antiates revolted, and that the consul Lucius Cornelius conducted that war and captured the town. I would not venture to affirm this as certain, because there is no mention of this matter among the older writers.
- 3.23.2reposcere latum auxilium
latum auxilium is the direct object of reposcere. latum is the perfect passive participle of fero, referring here to the aid 'brought' or rendered by the Tusculans to Rome in the past. Thus, the phrase means 'to demand in return the aid that had been rendered.'
- 3.23.4vi numquam eo subiri potuit
The passive infinitive subiri (from the intransitive verb subeo, to go up/approach) is used impersonally here, as is potuit. Literally 'it could never be gone up there by force,' meaning 'it was never possible to ascend there by force.'
- 3.23.5qua postquam ventum ad extremum est
qua is a relative connection (ablative), linking to the preceding context ('therein' or 'whereupon'). ventum ... est is the impersonal perfect passive of the intransitive verb venio, meaning literally 'after it had come to the extreme.'
- 3.23.7non ausim
ausim is an archaic perfect subjunctive (acting as a present subjunctive) of audeo (to dare), used here as a potential subjunctive to express a hesitant or cautious assertion: 'I would not venture to' or 'I should not dare.'