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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 dictator Sulpicius achieves a major victory over the Gauls through stratagem and encouragement, celebrating a triumph, while on another front the consul Fabius is defeated by the Tarquinienses, resulting in the sacrifice of captured Roman soldiers.
acrius invasere Galli dextrum cornu; neque sustineri potuissent, ni forte eo loco dictator fuisset Sex. Tullium nomine increpans rogitansque,1 “sicine pugnaturos milites spopondisset;2 ubi illi clamores sint arma poscentium, ubi minae iniussu imperatoris proelium inituros; en ipsum imperatorem clara voce vocare ad proelium et ire armatum ante prima signa; ecquis sequeretur eorum, qui modo ducturi fuerint, in castris feroces, in acie pavidi.” uera audiebant;
The Gauls attacked the right wing more fiercely; and they could not have been withstood, had not the dictator by chance been in that place, upbraiding Sextus Tullius by name and repeatedly asking: “Is this how you promised the soldiers would fight? Where are those shouts of men demanding arms? Where are the threats that they would enter battle without the commander’s order? Lo, the commander himself calls to battle with a clear voice and goes armed before the front line; is there anyone of those who were just now going to lead us, fierce in the camp, cowardly in the battle array, who would follow?” They were hearing the truth;
itaque tantos pudor stimulos admovit, ut ruerent in hostium tela alienatis a memoria periculi animis. hic primo impetus prope vecors turbavit hostes, eques deinde emissus turbatos avertit. ipse dictator, postquam labantem una parte vidit aciem, signa in laevum cornu confert, quo turbam hostium congregari cernebat, et iis, qui in monte erant, signum, quod convenerat, dedit.
and so shame applied such great spurs to them that they rushed into the enemy’s weapons, with their minds turned away from the memory of danger. This first, almost mad charge threw the enemy into confusion, and then the horsemen, having been sent forth, routed them in their disorder. The dictator himself, after he saw the line wavering in one part, moved the standards to the left wing, where he saw the crowd of the enemy gathering, and gave to those who were on the mountain the signal that had been agreed upon.
ubi inde quoque novus clamor ortus est et tendere obliquo monte ad castra Gallorum visi sunt,3 tum metu, ne excluderentur, omissa pugna est, cursuque effuso ad castra ferebantur.
When from there too a new shout arose and they were seen tending along the slope of the mountain toward the camp of the Gauls, then, from fear lest they should be cut off, the battle was abandoned, and they were carried toward the camp in headlong flight.
ubi cum occurrisset eis M. Valerius magister equitum, qui profligato dextro cornu obequitabat hostium munimentis, ad montes silvasque vertunt fugam plurimique ibi a fallaci equitum specie agasonibusque excepti sunt; et eorum, quos pavor pertulerat in silvas, atrox caedes post sedatum proelium fuit.
When they were met there by Marcus Valerius, the master of the horse, who, having routed the right wing, was riding up to the enemy’s fortifications, they turned their flight toward the mountains and woods; and there most of them were intercepted by the horsemen of false appearance and the muleteers; and of those whom fear had carried into the woods, there was a terrible slaughter after the battle was subdued.
nec alius post M. Furium quam C. Sulpicius iustiorem de Gallis egit triumphum. auri quoque ex Gallicis spoliis satis magnum pondus saxo quadrato saeptum in Capitolio sacravit. eodem anno et a consulibus vario eventu bellatum;
Nor did any other after Marcus Furius celebrate a more deserved triumph over the Gauls than Gaius Sulpicius. He also consecrated a fairly large weight of gold from the Gallic spoils, enclosed with squared stone, in the Capitol. In the same year, war was also waged by the consuls with varying fortune;
nam Hernici a C. Plautio devicti subactique sunt. Fabius collega eius incaute atque inconsulte adversus Tarquinienses pugnavit.
for the Hernici were thoroughly defeated and subdued by Gaius Plautius. Fabius, his colleague, fought incautiously and inconsiderately against the Tarquinienses.
nec in acie tantum ibi cladis acceptum, quam quod4 trecentos septem milites Romanos captos Tarquinienses immolarunt, qua foeditate supplicii aliquanto ignominia populi Romani insignitior fuit.
Nor was so much of a disaster received there in the battle line as from the fact that the Tarquinienses sacrificed three hundred and seven captured Roman soldiers, by which foulness of punishment the ignominy of the Roman people was made considerably more conspicuous.
accessit ad eam cladem et vastatio Romani agri, quam Privernates, Veliterni deinde, incursione repentina fecerunt.
To that disaster was added also the devastation of the Roman territory, which the Privernates, and then the Veliterni, made by a sudden incursion.
eodem anno duae tribus, Pomptina et Publilia, additae; ludi votivi, quos M. Furius dictator voverat, facti; et de ambitu ab C. Poetelio tribuno plebis auctoribus patribus tum primum ad populum latum est; eaque rogatione novorum maxime hominum ambitionem, qui nundinas et conciliabula obire soliti erant, conpressam credebant.
In the same year, two tribes, the Pomptina and the Publilia, were added; the votive games which the dictator Marcus Furius had vowed were celebrated; and a bill concerning bribery (de ambitu) was then for the first time brought before the people by Gaius Poetelius, tribune of the plebs, with the authorization of the senate; and by that proposal they believed that the ambition especially of the new men, who had been accustomed to go about the markets and meeting places, was checked.
- 7.15.1Sex. Tullium nomine increpans rogitansque
The participles increpans and rogitansque modify dictator, the subject of fuisset in the conditional clause of 7.15.1. The proper name Sex. at the end of 7.15.1 and Tullium at the beginning of 7.15.2 form a single name (Sextus Tullius).
- 7.15.2sicine pugnaturos milites spopondisset
Although enclosed in quotation marks, the syntax follows the rules of indirect speech (oratio obliqua) introduced by increpans and rogitansque; hence the verb spopondisset is in the pluperfect subjunctive. The subsequent sentences also use the subjunctive (sint, sequeretur) and the accusative with infinitive (vocare, ire).
- 7.15.5tendere obliquo monte ad castra Gallorum visi sunt
visi sunt is used in the copulative sense of 'they were seen to' or 'appeared to,' with tendere as the complementary infinitive. obliquo monte is an ablative of route, meaning 'along the sloping mountain' or 'obliquely across the mountain.'
- 7.15.10nec in acie tantum ibi cladis acceptum, quam quod
A comparative structure tantum ... quam quod, meaning 'not so much [disaster was received] in the battle line as from the fact that...' cladis is a partitive genitive dependent on tantum. acceptum [est] is an impersonal passive.