§2.55.1ἑτέρας δὲ μάχης μετʼ οὐ πολὺ γενομένης, ἐνίκων οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι σοφίᾳ τοῦ ἡγεμόνος ὄρος τι καταλαβομένου νύκτωρ οὐ πολὺν τοῦ στρατοπέδου τῶν πολεμίων τόπον ἀπέχον καὶ λοχίσαντος ἐν αὐτῷ τὴν ἀκμαιοτάτην τῶν ὕστερον ἀφικομένων ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἱππέων τε καὶ πεζῶν δύναμιν.
When another battle took place not long afterward, the Romans were victorious through the wisdom of their commander, who occupied by night a certain hill not far distant from the camp of the enemy, and placed in ambush there the most vigorous force of the horse and foot who had arrived later from the city.
§2.55.2συνελθόντων δʼ εἰς τὸ πεδίον ἀμφοτέρων καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀγωνιζομένων τρόπον, ἐπειδὴ τὸ σύνθημα ὁ Ῥωμύλος ἦρε τοῖς ἐπὶ τοῦ ὄρους, ἀλαλάξαντες οἱ λοχῶντες ἔθεον ἐπὶ τοὺς Οὐιεντανοὺς ἐκ τῶν κατόπιν καὶ προσπεσόντες ἀνθρώποις μεμοχθηκόσιν αὐτοὶ ἀκμῆτες ὄντες οὐ σὺν πολλῷ τρέπουσι χρόνῳ.
When both sides had assembled in the plain and were fighting in the same manner, as soon as Romulus raised the signal for those on the hill, the men in ambush, raising the war-cry, rushed upon the Veientes from behind; and falling upon men who were already exhausted, being themselves fresh, they routed them in a short time.
τῶν δʼ ὀλίγοι μέν τινες ἀποθνήσκουσι κατὰ τὴν μάχην, οἱ δὲ πλείους εἰς τὸν Τέβεριν ποταμόν ʽῥεῖ δὲ παρὰ τὴν Φιδήνηνʼ ῥίψαντες ἑαυτούς, ὡς διανηξόμενοι τὸ ῥεῦμα, διεφθάρησαν.
A few of them died in the battle, but the greater part threw themselves into the Tiber River (which flows past Fidenae) and perished while trying to swim across the current.
τραυματίαι γὰρ ὄντες καὶ βαρεῖς ὑπὸ κόπου ἀδύνατοι ἐγένοντο διανήξασθαι· οἱ δὲ καὶ ἀπειρίᾳ τοῦ νεῖν, οὐ προϊδόντες, ὑπὸ τοῦ δεινοῦ τὴν γνώμην ἐπιταραχθέντες ἐν ταῖς δίναις ἀπώλλυντο.
For, being wounded and heavy with fatigue, they were unable to swim across; others, also through lack of skill in swimming and not having foreseen the depth, had their minds confused by the terror of the situation and perished in the whirlpools.
§2.55.3εἰ μὲν οὖν συνέγνωσαν ἑαυτοῖς Οὐιεντανοὶ κακῶς τὰ πρῶτα βεβουλευμένοις καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἦγον ἡσυχίαν οὐδενὸς ἂν ἔτι μείζονος ἀπέλαυσαν κακοῦ, νῦν δὲ ἀναμαχεῖσθαί τε τὰ πρότερα σφάλματα ἐλπίσαντες καὶ εἰ μείζονι παρασκευῇ ἐπιβάλοιεν, ῥᾳδίως ἐπικρατήσειν οἰόμενοι τῷ πολέμῳ, πολλῇ στρατιᾷ τῇ τε ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς πόλεως καταγραφείσῃ καὶ τῇ ἐκ τῶν ὁμοεθνῶν κατὰ φιλίαν παραγενομένῃ τὸ δεύτερον ἐπὶ τοὺς Ῥωμαίους ἐλαύνουσι·
If, then, the Veientes had recognized that they had planned badly at first and had kept quiet for the future, they would have suffered no further greater evil; but as it was, hoping to retrieve their former failures and thinking that if they attacked with greater preparation they would easily prevail in the war, they marched a second time against the Romans with a large army, composed both of those enrolled from the city itself and of those who had come from their kinsmen in friendship.
§2.55.4καὶ γίνεται πάλιν αὐτῶν μάχη καρτερὰ τῆς Φιδήνης πλησίον, ἣν ἐνίκων Ῥωμαῖοι πολλοὺς μὲν ἀποκτείναντες τῶν Οὐιεντανῶν, ἔτι δὲ πλείους αἰχμαλώτους λαβόντες.
And again a fierce battle took place between them near Fidenae, in which the Romans were victorious, killing many of the Veientes and taking still more prisoners.
ἑάλω δὲ καὶ ὁ χάραξ αὐτῶν μεστὸς ὢν χρημάτων τε καὶ ὅπλων καὶ ἀνδραπόδων, καὶ σκάφαι ποταμηγοὶ γέμουσαι πολλῆς ἀγορᾶς ἐλήφθησαν, ἐν αἷς ὁ τῶν αἰχμαλώτων ὄχλος εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην κατήγετο διὰ τοῦ ποταμοῦ.
Their camp also was captured, full of money, arms, and slaves, and river-boats laden with much provision were taken, in which the crowd of captives was conveyed down the river to Rome.
§2.55.5οὗτος κατήχθη τρίτος ὑπὸ Ῥωμύλου θρίαμβρος μακρῷ τῶν προτέρων ἐκπρεπέστερος.
This was the third triumph celebrated by Romulus, by far the most splendid of the former ones.
καὶ μετʼ οὐ πολὺ Οὐιεντανῶν πρεσβείας ἀφικομένης περὶ διαλύσεως τοῦ πολέμου καὶ συγγνώμην τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἀξιούσης λαβεῖν δίκας ὁ Ῥωμύλος αὐτοῖς ἐπιτίθησι τάς2δε· χώραν τε παραδοῦναι Ῥωμαίοις τὴν προσεχῆ τῷ Τεβέρει, τοὺς καλουμένους Ἑπτὰ πάγους, καὶ τῶν ἁλῶν ἀποστῆναι τῶν παρὰ ταῖς ἐκβολαῖς τοῦ ποταμοῦ, τοῦ δὲ μηδὲν ἔτι νεωτερίσαι τὸ πιστὸν παρασχεῖν ὅμηρα πεντήκοντα ἀγογόντας.
And not long afterward, when an embassy of the Veientes arrived to treat for the termination of the war and to ask for pardon for their offenses, Romulus imposed upon them the following penalties: to surrender to the Romans the territory adjacent to the Tiber called the Septem Pagi, to abandon the salt-works near the mouth of the river, and to deliver fifty hostages as a pledge that they would make no further disturbance.
§2.55.6ὑπομεινάντων δὲ Οὐιεντανῶν ἅπαντα ταῦτα σπονδὰς ποιησάμενος πρὸς αὐτοὺς εἰς ἑκατὸν ἔτη στήλαις ἐνεχάραξε τὰς ὁμολογίας.
When the Veientes submitted to all these terms, he made a treaty of peace with them for a hundred years and engraved the agreement on pillars.
τῶν δʼ αἰχμαλώτων τοὺς μὲν ἀπιέναι βουλομένους ἀφῆκεν ἄνευ λύτρων, τοὺς δʼ αὐτοῦ μένειν προαιρουμένους πολλῷ πλείους ὄντας τῶν ἑτέρων πολίτας ποιησάμενος ταῖς φράτραις ἐπιδιεῖλε καὶ κλήρους αὐτοῖς προσένειμε ἐπὶ τάδε τοῦ Τεβέριος.
Of the captives, he released without ransom those who wished to return home, and those who preferred to remain there—who were far more numerous than the others—he made citizens, distributing them among the curiae and assigning them allotments of land on this side of the Tiber.