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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 Gauls, unable to withstand the Roman onslaught, fled in disorder across the River Halys. The consul Manlius gathered immense booty, agreed to negotiate peace with the defeated Gauls at Ephesus, and withdrew his army to the coastal winter quarters due to the approaching cold.
Galli et memoria Tolostobogiorum cladis territi et inhaerentia corporibus gerentes tela fessique et stando et vulneribus ne primum quidem impetum et clamorem Romanorum tulerunt.
The Gauls, terrified both by the memory of the disaster of the Tolostobogii and carrying weapons sticking in their bodies, and exhausted both by standing and by wounds, did not withstand even the first onset and shout of the Romans.
fuga ad castra inclinavit; sed pauci intra munimenta sese recepere; pars maior dextra laevaque praelati,1 qua quemque impetus tulit, fugerunt. victores usque ad castra secuti ceciderunt terga; deinde in castris cupiditate praedae haeserunt, nec sequebatur quisquam. in cornibus Galli diutius steterunt, quia serius ad eos perventum est; ceterum ne primum quidem coniectum telorum tulerunt.
The flight turned toward the camp; but few withdrew within the fortifications; the greater part, passing by on the right and on the left, fled wherever each one’s impulse carried him. The victors, having pursued them right up to the camp, cut down their rear; then they lingered in the camp out of desire for plunder, and no one continued the pursuit. On the wings the Gauls stood longer, because they were reached later; however, they did not withstand even the first discharge of weapons.
consul quia ingressos in castra ab direptione abstrahere non poterat, eos, qui in cornibus fuerant, protinus ad sequendos hostis misit.
The consul, since he could not draw away from plundering those who had entered the camp, immediately sent those who had been on the wings to pursue the enemy.
per aliquantum spatium secuti non plus2 tamen octo milia hominum in fuga — nam pugna nulla fuit — ceciderunt; reliqui flumen Halyn traiecerunt.
Having pursued them for some distance, they nevertheless cut down no more than eight thousand men in the flight — for there was no battle; the rest crossed the river Halys.
Romanorum pars magna ea nocte in castris hostium mansit; ceteros in sua castra consul reduxit. postero die captivos praedamque recensuit, quae tanta fuit, quantam avidissima rapiendi3 gens, cum cis montem Taurum omnia armis per multos annos tenuisset, coacervare potuit.
A large part of the Romans remained that night in the camp of the enemy; the consul led the rest back to their own camp. On the following day he took an account of the prisoners and the booty, which was as great as a nation most greedy for plunder could accumulate when it had held everything by force of arms for many years on this side of Mount Taurus.
Galli ex dissipata passim fuga in unum locum congregati, magna pars saucii aut inermes, nudati omnibus rebus, oratores de pace ad consulem miserunt.
The Gauls, gathered into one place from their scattered flight in all directions, a large part wounded or unarmed, stripped of all things, sent envoys to the consul to treat of peace.
eos Manlius Ephesum venire iussit; ipse — iam enim medium autumni erat — locis gelidis propinquitate4 Tauri montis excedere properans victorem exercitum in hiberna maritimae orae reduxit.
Manlius ordered them to come to Ephesus; he himself — for it was now the middle of autumn — hastening to depart from the cold regions owing to the proximity of Mount Taurus, led the victorious army back to winter quarters on the maritime coast.
- 38.27.2praelati
A perfect participle in the masculine plural, agreeing by constructio ad sensum (agreement according to sense) with the collective noun pars maior (feminine singular), which refers to the individual fleeing soldiers.
- 38.27.6non plus
A comparative construction using plus where the conjunction quam ('than') is omitted, with the numeral octo milia functioning directly as the subject.
- 38.27.7rapiendi
The genitive of the gerund of the transitive verb rapio ('to plunder'), serving as the objective complement to the superlative adjective avidissima ('most greedy').
- 38.27.9propinquitate
The ablative singular of propinquitas ('proximity'), expressing cause ('because of' or 'owing to'), indicating the reason why the places were cold.