§3.5.1παραδόξου δὲ τοῦ πάθους ὥσπερ εἰκὸς ἅπασι φαινομένου καὶ ζητουμένης τῆς αἰτίας ʽοὐδὲ γὰρ νόσον προηγησαμένην εἶχέ τις αἰτιάσασθαἰ οἱ μὲν ἐπὶ τὴν θείαν πρόνοιαν ἁπάσας τὰς ἀνθρωπίνας ἀναφέροντες τύχας κατὰ χόλον δαιμόνιον ἔλεγον αὐτὸν ἀποθανεῖν, ὅτι πόλεμον ἐξέκαυσε τῇ μητροπόλει πρὸς τὴν ἀπόκτισιν οὔτε δίκαιον οὔτε ἀναγκαῖον·
When this unexpected death, as was natural, appeared extraordinary to all, and its cause was being sought (for no one could point to any prior illness as the cause), some, who refer all human fortunes to divine providence, said that he had died by the wrath of the gods because he had kindled for his mother-city a war against her colony that was neither just nor necessary.
οἱ δὲ χρηματισμὸν ἡγούμενοι τὸν πόλεμον καὶ μεγάλων ἀπεστερῆσθαι νομίζοντες ὠφελειῶν εἰς ἐπιβουλὴν καὶ φθόνον ἀνθρώπινον τὸ ἔργον μετέφερον αἰτιώμενοι τῶν ἀντιπολιτευομένων τινὰς ἀφανῆ καὶ δυσεξέλεγκτα ἐξευρόντας φάρμακα διὰ τούτων τὸν ἄνδρα ἀνῃρηκέναι·
Others, however, who regarded the war as a source of profit and believed they had been deprived of great advantages, attributed the event to human conspiracy and envy, accusing certain of their political opponents of having made away with the man by administering invisible and hard-to-detect poisons.
§3.5.2οἱ δὲ ὑπὸ λύπης τε καὶ ἀμηχανίας κρατούμενον ἑκουσίῳ χρήσασθαι τελευτῇ αὐτὸν ἔφασαν, ἐπειδὴ πάντα χαλεπὰ καὶ ἄπορα συνέβαινεν αὐτῷ καὶ οὐδὲν ἐχώρει κατὰ νοῦν τῶν ἐν ἀρχαῖς, ὅτε εἰς τὰ πράγματα εἰσῄει, προσδοκηθέντων·
Still others said that, overcome by grief and helplessness, he had met a voluntary death, since everything was turning out difficult and insoluble for him, and nothing succeeded according to the expectations he had held in the beginning when he entered upon public affairs.
τοῖς δʼ ἐκτὸς οὖσι φιλίας τε καὶ ἔχθρας τῆς πρὸς τὸν στρατηγὸν καὶ ἀπὸ παντὸς τοῦ βελτίστου κρίνουσι τὸ συμβεβηκὸς οὔτε ἡ θεία νέμεσις οὔτε ὁ τῶν ἀντιπολιτευομένων φθόνος οὔθʼ ἡ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀπόγνωσις ἀνῃρηκέναι τὸν ἄνδρα ἐδόκει, ἀλλʼ ἡ τῆς φύσεως ἀνάγκη καὶ τὸ χρεὼν ὡς ἐκπεπληρωκότα τὴν ὀφειλομένην μοῖραν, ἧς ἅπασι τοῖς γινομένοις πέπρωται τυχεῖν.
But to those who were free from friendship or enmity toward the general, and who judged the event purely from the best standpoint, neither divine nemesis, nor the envy of political opponents, nor despair at the situation seemed to have carried the man off, but rather the necessity of nature and fate, as one who had fulfilled his allotted portion, which it is destined for all living things to obtain.
§3.5.3Κλοίλιος μὲν δὴ πρὶν ἢ γενναῖον ἀποδείξασθαί τι τοιαύτης τελευτῆς ἔτυχεν, εἰς δὲ τὸν ἐκείνου τόπον ἀποδείκνυται στρατηγὸς αὐτοκράτωρ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπὶ στρατοπέδου Μέττιος Φουφέττιος, ἀνὴρ οὔτε πολέμου ἡγεμὼν ἱκανὸς οὔτε εἰρήνης βέβαιος φύλαξ, ὃς οὐδενὸς ἧττον Ἀλβανῶν πρόθυμος ὢν κατʼ ἀρχὰς διαστῆσαι τὰς πόλεις καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τῆς ἀρχῆς μετὰ τὸν Κλοιλίου θάνατον ἀξιωθείς, ἐπειδὴ τῆς ἡγεμονίας ἔτυχε καὶ ὅσα ἦν ἐν τοῖς πράγμασι δυσχερῆ καὶ ἄπορα συνεῖδεν, οὐκέτι διέμεινεν ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς βουλεύμασιν, ἀλλʼ εἰς ἀναβολὰς καὶ διατριβὰς ἄγειν ἠξίου τὰ πράγματα ὁρῶν οὔτε τοὺς Ἀλβανοὺς ἅπαντας ὁμοίαν ἔχοντας ἔτι προθυμίαν πρὸς πόλεμον οὔτε τὰ σφάγια ὁπότε θύοιτο περὶ μάχης καλὰ γινόμενα·
Cluilius indeed met with such an end before he could perform any noble deed, and in his place Mettius Fufetius was appointed general with absolute power by those in the camp, a man who was neither an able leader in war nor a firm guardian of peace. He, though in the beginning no less eager than any of the Albans to divide the cities, and for this reason deemed worthy of the command after the death of Cluilius, when he obtained the command and saw all the difficulties and perplexities that were in the situation, he no longer persisted in his former designs, but preferred to lead affairs into delays and hesitations, seeing that neither did all the Albans still have the same eagerness for war, nor did the sacrifices whenever they were offered concerning battle turn out favorable.
§3.5.4τελευτῶν δὲ καὶ εἰς καταλλαγὰς ἔγνω προκαλεῖσθαι τοὺς πολεμίους πρότερος ἐπικηρυκευσάμενος, μαθὼν τὸν ἐπικρεμάμενον ἔξωθεν Ἀλβανοῖς τε καὶ Ῥωμαίοις κίνδυνον, εἰ μὴ σπείσονται τὸν πρὸς ἀλλήλους πόλεμον, ἀφύλακτον ὄντα, ὃς ἔμελλεν ἀμφοτέρας ἀναρπάσασθαι τὰς δυνάμεις.
Finally, he resolved to be the first to send a herald and challenge the enemy to a reconciliation, having learned of the danger hanging over both the Albans and the Romans from the outside, which, if they did not make peace in their war against each other, was unguarded against, and was bound to sweep away both their forces.
ἦν δὲ τοιός2δε·
And it was of the following nature: