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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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Rome decides to wage war against the Vestini in addition to the Samnites; while the sick consul Camillus is replaced by Papirius Cursor as dictator, the other consul Brutus defeats the Vestini and storms their towns.
eodem anno cum satis per se ipsum Samnitium bellum et defectio repens Lucanorum auctoresque defectionis Tarentini sollicitos haberent patres, accessit, ut1 et Vestinus populus Samnitibus sese coniungeret.
In the same year, while the Samnite war by itself and the sudden revolt of the Lucanians, together with the Tarentines, the authors of the revolt, kept the fathers sufficiently anxious, there was added the fact that the Vestinian people also joined themselves to the Samnites.
quae res sicut eo anno sermonibus magis passim hominum iactata quam in publico ullo concilio est, ita insequentis anni consulibus, L. Furio Camillo iterum Iunio Bruto Scaevae, nulla prior potiorque visa est, de qua ad senatum referrent.
And just as this matter in that year was tossed about more in the rumors of men everywhere than in any public assembly, so to the consuls of the following year, L. Furius Camillus for the second time and Iunius Brutus Scaeva, no business seemed more urgent or more important to refer to the senate.
et quamquam non nova res erat, tamen tanta cura patres incessit, ut pariter eam susceptam neglectamque2 timerent, ne aut inpunitas eorum lascivia superbiaque aut bello poenae expetitae3 metu propinquo atque ira concirent finitimos populos.
And although it was not a new matter, yet such great anxiety came upon the fathers that they feared it equally whether undertaken or neglected, lest either their impunity, through their insolence and pride, or the punishment sought by war, through immediate fear and anger, should stir up the neighboring peoples.
et erat genus omne abunde bello Samnitibus par, Marsi Paelignique et Marrucini: quos, si Vestinus attingeretur, omnes habendos hostes.4
And the whole race—the Marsi, Paeligni, and Marrucini—was fully equal in war to the Samnites; all of whom, if the Vestini were attacked, would have to be held as enemies.
vicit tamen pars, quae in praesentia videri potuit maioris animi quam consilii;
Yet that party won which for the present might seem of greater courage than of wisdom;
sed eventus docuit fortes fortunam iuvare. bellum ex auctoritate patrum populus adversus Vestinos iussit.
but the outcome showed that fortune favors the brave. The people, on the authority of the fathers, ordered war against the Vestini.
provincia ea Bruto, Samnium Camillo sorte evenit. exercitus utroque ducti, et cura tuendorum finium hostes prohibiti coniungere arma.
By lot, that province fell to Brutus, Samnium to Camillus. Armies were led to both quarters, and by care in guarding the borders, the enemies were prevented from joining forces.
ceterum alterum consulem L. Furium, cui maior moles rerum inposita erat, morbo gravi inplicitum fortuna bello subtraxit;
However, fortune withdrew from the war the other consul, L. Furius, upon whom the greater burden of affairs had been imposed, as he was afflicted by a serious disease;
iussusque dictatorem dicere rei gerendae causa longe clarissimum bello ea tempestate dixit, L. Papirium Cursorem, a quo Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus magister equitum est dictus:
and having been ordered to name a dictator for the conduct of affairs, he named L. Papirius Cursor, by far the most famous in war at that time, by whom Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus was named master of the horse:
par nobile rebus in eo magistratu gestis, discordia tamen, qua prope ad ultimum dimicationis ventum est, nobilius. ab altero consule in Vestinis multiplex bellum nec usquam vario eventu gestum est. nam et pervastavit agros et populando atque urendo tecta hostium sataque in aciem invitos extraxit et ita proelio uno accidit Vestinorum res, haudquaquam tamen incruento milite suo,5 ut non in castra solum refugerent hostes sed iam ne vallo quidem ac fossis freti dilaberentur in oppida, situ urbium moenibusque se defensuri.
a pair noble for the things achieved in that office, yet more famous for their discord, by which they came nearly to the extreme of conflict. By the other consul, a manifold war was waged among the Vestini, nor was it carried on anywhere with varying success. For he both thoroughly devastated the fields and, by pillaging and burning the dwellings and crops of the enemy, drew them unwillingly into battle; and thus, by a single battle, the fortune of the Vestini fell—though by no means with bloodless soldiers of his own—so that the enemy not only fled back to their camp, but now, not even trusting the rampart and trenches, dispersed into their towns, intending to defend themselves by the situation and walls of their cities.
postremo oppida quoque vi expugnare adortus primo Cutinam ingenti ardore militum a vulnerum ira, quod haud fere quisquam integer proelio excesserat, scalis cepit, deinde Cingiliam.
Finally, having set about to storm the towns also by force, he first took Cutina with ladders, thanks to the immense ardor of his soldiers arising from the anger at their wounds, because scarcely anyone had come out of the battle unhurt, and then Cingilia.
utriusque urbis praedam militibus, quod eos neque portae nec muri hostium arcuerant, concessit.
The plunder of both cities he granted to the soldiers, because neither gates nor walls of the enemies had kept them back.
- 8.29.1accessit, ut
The clause introduced by ut acts as the subject of the impersonal verb accessit (literally, 'it was added that...').
- 8.29.3eam susceptam neglectamque
The accusative pronoun eam refers back to quae res (the Vestinian question). The participles susceptam and neglectam modify eam with conditional force: 'whether it were undertaken [acted upon] or neglected.'
- 8.29.3inpunitas... poenae expetitae
A balanced structure within the ne clause. The subjects inpunitas eorum and poenae expetitae are respectively paired with the ablatives of cause/manner lascivia superbiaque and metu propinquo atque ira. The verb concirent is third-person plural imperfect subjunctive, agreeing with both subjects.
- 8.29.4quos... habendos hostes
The relative pronoun quos (referring to Marsi, Paeligni, and Marrucini) acts as a connecting relative and the subject accusative of the gerundive construction habendos [esse]. It represents the thoughts or prospects of the senate.
- 8.29.12incruento milite suo
Ablative absolute. miles (soldier) is used collectively for 'his troops,' meaning 'with his own soldiers being by no means bloodless' (i.e., with considerable casualties on his own side).