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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 Romans launch a surprise attack on the unprepared Ligurians, routing them and capturing their camp, which forces the Ingaunian tribe to surrender. Upon receiving the news, the senate decrees a thanksgiving and orders the disbandment of the emergency forces.
bina cis montes castra Ligurum erant. ex iis primis diebus sole orto pariter omnes compositi et instructi procedebant;
There were two camps of the Ligurians on this side of the mountains. From these, in the first days, they all used to march out at sunrise, equally well-ordered and drawn up;
tum nisi exsatiati cibo vinoque arma non capiebant, dispersi inordinati exibant, ut quibus prope certum esset1 hostes extra vallum non elaturos signa.
then, they would not take up arms unless sated with food and wine, and they went out dispersed and disordered, as men who were almost certain that the enemy would not bring their standards outside the rampart.
adversus ita incompositos eos venientes clamore pariter omnium, qui in castris erant, calonum quoque et lixarum sublato simul omnibus portis Romani eruperunt.
Against them, as they came on in such disorder, the Romans burst forth from all the gates at once, with a shout raised simultaneously by all who were in the camp, including even the camp-servants and sutlers.
Liguribus adeo improvisa res fuit, ut perinde ac si insidiis circumventi forent trepidarent. exiguum temporis aliqua forma pugnae fuit:
To the Ligurians, the event was so unexpected that they were thrown into panic, just as if they had been surrounded by an ambush. For a brief space of time, there was some semblance of a battle;
fuga deinde effusa et fugientium passim caedes erat, equitibus dato signo, ut conscenderent equos nec effugere quemquam sinerent. in castra omnes trepida fuga compulsi sunt, deinde ipsis exuti2 castris.
then followed a headlong flight and a slaughter of the fugitives on all sides, a signal being given to the cavalry to mount their horses and not suffer anyone to escape. They were all driven back to their camp in a panicked flight, and then stripped of the camp itself.
supra quindecim milia Ligurum eo die occisa, capti duo milia et trecenti. triduo post Ligurum Ingaunorum nomen omne obsidibus datis in dicionem venit.
More than fifteen thousand of the Ligurians were slain on that day, and two thousand three hundred were captured. Three days later, the entire nation of the Ingaunian Ligurians, having given hostages, came under subjection.
gubernatores nautaeque conquisiti, qui in praedatoriis fuissent navibus, atque omnes in custodiam coniecti. et a C. Matieno duumviro naves eius generis in Ligustina ora triginta duae captae sunt.
The helmsmen and sailors who had been on the predatory ships were sought out, and all were thrown into custody; and thirty-two ships of that kind were captured on the Ligurian coast by Gaius Matienus, the duumvir.
haec qui nuntiarent3 litterasque ad senatum ferrent, L. Aurelius Cotta C. Sulpicius Gallus Romam missi, simulque peterent, ut L. Aemilio confecta provincia decedere et deducere secum milites liceret atque dimittere.
To report these events and carry the letters to the senate, Lucius Aurelius Cotta and Gaius Sulpicius Gallus were sent to Rome, and at the same time to request that Lucius Aemilius, having completed his province, might be permitted to depart, bring back his soldiers with him, and disband them.
utrumque permissum ab senatu et supplicatio ad omnia pulvinaria per triduum decreta, iussique praetores Petilius urbanas dimittere legiones, Fabius sociis atque nomini Latino remittere dilectum;
Both requests were granted by the senate, and a thanksgiving of three days at all the shrines was decreed; and the praetors were ordered, Petilius to disband the city legions, and Fabius to remit the levy to the allies and the Latin name;
et uti praetor urbanus consulibus scriberet senatum aequum censere subitarios milites, tumultus causa conscriptos, primo quoque tempore dimitti.
and that the city praetor should write to the consuls that the senate thought it right that the emergency soldiers, who had been enlisted on account of the sudden uprising, should be disbanded at the earliest possible moment.
- 40.28.2ut quibus prope certum esset
The subjunctive construction ut qui with the dative of the relative pronoun (quibus) and esset expresses a subjective reason ('since they were almost certain'). quibus refers to the Ligurians, serving as a dative of reference with the impersonal expression certum esset.
- 40.28.5exuti
Perfect participle of the verb exuo ('to strip, deprive'). It regularly takes an accusative of the person and an ablative of the thing taken away (exuere aliquem re). In the passive voice, the person becomes the subject, while the thing (castris) remains in the ablative case.
- 40.28.8haec qui nuntiarent
A relative clause of purpose consisting of qui and the subjunctive nuntiarent. The relative pronoun qui refers forward to the main subject, Lucius Aurelius Cotta and Gaius Sulpicius Gallus, meaning 'in order to report these things'.