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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 Ardeates, led by Camillus, destroy the Gallic camp in a night surprise, while the Roman soldiers at Veii, under the command of a centurion, launch a successful night attack against the hostile Etruscans who sought to plunder them.
aequis iniquisque persuasum erat tantum bello virum neminem usquam ea tempestate esse. contione dimissa corpora curant intenti, quam mox signum daretur. quo dato primo silentio noctis ad portas Camillo praesto fuere.
Both friends and foes were convinced that there was no man anywhere at that time so great in war. The assembly having been dismissed, they eagerly took care of their bodies, waiting to see how soon the signal would be given. When it was given, at the first silence of the night, they were at the gates ready for Camillus.
egressi haud procul urbe, sicut praedictum erat, castra Gallorum intuta neglectaque ab omni parte nacti cum ingenti clamore invadunt.
Marching out not far from the city, they found, just as had been foretold, the camp of the Gauls unprotected and neglected on every side, and invaded it with a mighty shout.
nusquam proelium, omnibus locis caedes est; nuda corpora et soluta somno trucidantur. extremos tamen pavor cubilibus suis excitos, quae aut unde vis esset, ignaros in fugam et quosdam in hostem ipsum inprovidos tulit. magna pars in agrum Antiatem delati excursione ab oppidanis in palatos facta circumveniuntur1 similis in agro Veienti Tuscorum facta strages est, qui urbis iam prope quadringentesimum annum vicinae, oppressae ab hoste invisitato, inaudito, adeo nihil miseriti sunt, ut in agrum Romanum eo tempore incursiones facerent plenique praedae Veios etiam praesidiumque, spem ultimam Romani nominis, in animo habuerint oppugnare.
Nowhere was there a battle, in all places it was a slaughter; their naked bodies, relaxed in sleep, were butchered. Yet panic carried away those on the outskirts, roused from their beds, ignorant of what or whence the force was, into flight, and some, heedless, right into the enemy itself. A large part, carried into the territory of Antium, were surrounded when a sally was made by the townsmen against the stragglers. A similar slaughter of the Etruscans took place in the territory of Veii, who felt so little pity for a neighboring city of now nearly four hundred years, oppressed by an unseen and unheard-of enemy, that they actually made incursions into Roman territory at that very time, and, laden with booty, even had it in mind to attack Veii and its garrison, the last hope of the Roman name.
viderant eos milites Romani vagantes per agros et congregato agmine praedam prae se agentis et castra cernebant haud procul Veis posita. inde primum miseratio sui, deinde indignitas atque ex ea ira animos cepit: Etruscisne etiam, a quibus bellum Gallicum in se avertissent, ludibrio esse clades suas?2 vix temperavere animis, quin extemplo impetum facerent;3 conpressi a Q. Caedicio centurione, quem sibimet ipsi praefecerant, rem in noctem sustinuere.
The Roman soldiers had seen them wandering through the fields, and driving their booty before them in a gathered column, and they perceived their camp pitched not far from Veii. Thence first came pity for themselves, and then indignation, and from that anger took possession of their minds: was it to be a laughing-stock to the Etruscans even, from whom they had averted the Gallic war onto themselves, that their own disasters should serve? They could scarcely restrain their feelings from making an immediate attack; but, held back by the centurion Quintus Caedicius, whom they had set over themselves, they deferred the matter until night.
tantum par Camillo defuit actor; cetera eodem ordine eodemque fortunae eventu gesta. quin etiam ducibus captivis, qui caedi nocturnae superfuerant, ad aliam manum Tuscorum ad salinas profecti nocte insequenti ex inproviso maiorem caedem edidere duplicique victoria orantes Veios redeunt.
Only a leader equal to Camillus was lacking; everything else was conducted in the same order and with the same successful issue. Nay, more, using the captive leaders who had survived the night slaughter as guides, they set out on the following night against another band of Etruscans at the salt-works, and, taking them by surprise, wrought a still greater slaughter, and returned to Veii exulting in a double victory.
- 5.45.3magna pars in agrum Antiatem delati ... circumveniuntur
The collective noun magna pars (singular feminine) takes the plural masculine participle delati and the plural verb circumveniuntur. This is a construction according to sense (constructio ad sensum), where agreement is made with the actual plural individuals implied rather than the grammatical form.
- 5.45.6Etruscisne etiam... ludibrio esse clades suas?
This is a rhetorical question in indirect speech (oratio obliqua), expressed by the accusative and infinitive (clades suas ... esse). Additionally, it features a double dative construction with Etruscis (dative of reference) and ludibrio (dative of purpose), meaning 'should their own disasters serve as a laughing-stock to the Etruscans?'.
- 5.45.6vix temperavere animis, quin extemplo impetum facerent
The verb temperare (here meaning 'to restrain') takes the dative or ablative (animis). The main clause, expressing difficulty in restraining oneself (equivalent to a negative idea of prevention), is followed by quin with the subjunctive (imperfect facerent) to express a prevented action ('they could scarcely restrain themselves from making an immediate attack').