§3.41.1τετάρτῳ δὲ μάλιστα μετὰ τόνδε τὸν πόλεμον ἐνιαυτῷ Μάρκιος ὁ τῶν Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς τήν τε πολιτικὴν δύναμιν ἄγων καὶ τὴν συμμαχικὴν μεταπεμψάμενος ὅσην ἐδύνατο πλείστην ἐστράτευσεν ἐπὶ Οὐιεντανοὺς καὶ πολλὴν τῆς χώρας αὐτῶν ἐδῄωσεν.
In about the fourth year after this war, Marcius, the king of the Romans, leading the civic force and having summoned as large an allied force as he could, marched against the Veientes and ravaged much of their territory.
ἐκεῖνοι δʼ ἤρξαντο ἐνιαυτῷ πρότερον εἰς τὴν Ῥωμαίων γῆν ἐμβαλόντες καὶ πολλὰς μὲν ἁρπαγὰς χρημάτων, πολὺν δὲ ἀνθρώπων ὄλεθρον ποιήσαντες·
They had begun the war a year earlier by invading the territory of the Romans and causing much plundering of property and great destruction of lives.
§3.41.2στρατιᾶς δὲ πολλῆς παρὰ τῶν Οὐιεντανῶν ἐξελθούσης καὶ πέραν τοῦ Τεβέριος ποταμοῦ πρὸς τῇ Φιδηναίων πόλει χάρακα θεμένης ἀναλαβὼν τὴν δύναμιν ἦγεν ὡς εἶχε τάχους καὶ πρῶτον μὲν τῶν ἐπὶ τὴν χώραν ἐξόδων αὐτοὺς ἀπέκλεισεν ἱπποκρατῶν, ἔπειτʼ εἰς παράταξιν προελθεῖν ἀναγκάσας ἐνίκησε καὶ τοῦ χάρακος αὐτῶν ἐκράτησε. χωρήσαντος δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ τούτου κατὰ γνώμην τοῦ πολέμου τὴν ἐπινίκιον πομπὴν καὶ τὸν εἰωθότα θρίαμβον τοῖς θεοῖς κατήγαγεν εἰς τὴν πόλιν ἀφικόμενος.
When a large army from the Veientes came out and pitched their camp across the Tiber River near the city of the Fidenates, Marcius took his force and marched with all possible speed. First, by prevailing with his cavalry, he shut them off from making excursions into the country; then, having forced them to come out for a pitched battle, he defeated them and captured their camp. Since this war also turned out according to his mind, he returned to the city and celebrated the victory procession and the customary triumph to the gods.
§3.41.3δευτέρῳ δʼ ὕστερον ἔτει πάλιν τῶν Οὐιεντανῶν λυσάντων ἃς ἐποιήσαντο πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀνοχὰς καὶ τὰς ἁλὰς ἀξιούντων ἀπολαβεῖν, ὧν ἐπὶ Ῥωμύλου βασιλέως καθʼ ὁμολογίας ἀπέστησαν, ἑτέραν τίθεται πρὸς αὐτοὺς μάχην περὶ ταῖς ἁλαῖς μείζονα τῆς προτέρας, ἣν εὐπετῶς ἐνίκησε, §3.41.4καὶ τὰς ἁλὰς ἐξ ἐκείνου κατεῖχεν ἀναμφιλόγως.
In the second year after this, when the Veientes again broke the truce they had made with him and demanded to recover the salt-works which they had surrendered by agreement in the reign of King Romulus, he fought another battle against them over the salt-works, larger than the former one, which he easily won, and from then on he held the salt-works without dispute.
τὰ δὲ ἀριστεῖα καὶ ἐκ ταύτης ἔλαβε τῆς μάχης ὁ τῶν ἱππέων ἡγεμὼν Ταρκύνιος, καὶ αὐτὸν ὁ Μάρκιος ἄνδρα πάντων κράτιστον ἡγησάμενος τά τε ἄλλα σεμνύνων διετέλει καὶ εἰς τὸν τῶν πατρικίων τε καὶ βουλευτῶν ἀριθμὸν κατέγραψεν.
In this battle also, Tarquinius, the commander of the cavalry, won the prize for valor, and Marcius, regarding him as the best man of all, continued to honor him in other ways and enrolled him in the number of the patricians and senators.
§3.41.5ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὸ τῶν Οὐολούσκων ἔθνος τῷ Μαρκίῳ πόλεμος λῃστηρίων κἀκεῖθεν ἐξιόντων ἐπὶ τοὺς τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀγρούς·
A war also arose for Marcius against the nation of the Volscians, as plundering bands went out from there too against the fields of the Romans.
καὶ στρατεύσας ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς μεγάλῃ χειρὶ πολλὴν περιεβάλετο λείαν πόλει τε αὐτῶν Οὐελίτραις προσκαθεζόμενος ἀπετάφρευε καὶ περιεχαράκου καὶ τειχομαχίαν συνίστατο τῆς ὑπαίθρου κρατῶν.
Marching against them with a large force, he acquired much booty, and sitting down before their city of Velitrae, he ditched it, palisaded it, and conducted a siege while remaining master of the open country.
ἐξελθόντων δὲ σὺν ἱκετηρίαις τῶν πρεσβυτάτων καὶ τάς τε βλάβας διαλύσειν ὑποσχομένων, ὡς ἂν ὁ βασιλεὺς δικαιώσῃ, καὶ τοὺς ἐνόχους ταῖς αἰτίαις ἐπὶ δίκην παρέξειν ὁμολογούντων, ἀνοχὰς πρὸς αὐτοὺς ποιησάμενος καὶ τὰ δίκαια παρʼ ἑκόντων λαβὼν εἰρήνην καὶ φιλίαν συντίθεται.
When the eldest men came out with supplications and promised to pay for the damages in such manner as the king should deem just, and agreed to deliver the guilty parties for trial, Marcius made a truce with them, and receiving just satisfaction from willing givers, he concluded peace and friendship.