§5.14.1διαπραξάμενοι δὲ ταῦτα καὶ τὰ πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον εὐτρεπισάμενοι τέως μὲν ὑπὸ τῇ πόλει τὰς δυνάμεις συνεῖχον ἐν τοῖς πεδίοις ὑπὸ σημείοις τε καὶ ἡγεμόσι τεταγμένας καὶ τὰ πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον ἀσκούσας πυνθανόμενοι τοὺς φυγάδας ἐξ ἁπασῶν τῶν ἐν Τυρρηνίᾳ πόλεων ἀγείρειν ἐπὶ σφᾶς στρατόν, καὶ δύο μὲν πόλεις ἐκ τοῦ φανεροῦ συλλαμβάνειν αὐτοῖς τῆς καθόδου, Ταρκυνιήτας τε καὶ Οὐιεντανούς, ἀξιοχρέοις δυνάμεσιν ἀμφοτέρας, ἐκ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἐθελοντάς τινας, οὓς μὲν ὑπὸ φίλων παρασκευασθέντας, οὓς δὲ μισθοφόρους· ἐπεὶ δʼ ἔμαθον ἐξεληλυθότας ἤδη τοὺς πολεμίους, ἀπαντᾶν αὐτοῖς ἔγνωσαν, καὶ πρὶν ἐκείνους διαβῆναι τὸν ποταμὸν αὐτοὶ τὰς δυνάμεις διαβιβάσαντες ἐχώρουν πρόσω, καὶ κατεστρατοπέδευσαν πλησίον Τυρρηνῶν ἐν λειμῶνι καλουμένῳ Ναιβίῳ παρὰ δρυμὸν §5.14.2ἱερὸν ἥρωος Ὁρατίου.
Having accomplished these things and prepared everything for the war, for a time they kept their forces together in the plains near the city, drawn up under their standards and commanders and training for war, because they learned that the exiles were gathering an army against them from all the cities in Etruria, and that two cities, Tarquinii and Veii, both with considerable forces, were openly assisting them in their return, and from the other cities some volunteers, some procured by friends, others mercenaries; but when they learned that the enemy had already set out, they resolved to meet them, and before those crossed the river, they themselves transported their forces over and advanced forward, and encamped near the Etruscans in a meadow called Naevian beside the sacred grove of the hero Horatius.
ἐτύγχανον δὲ πλήθει τε ἀγχώμαλοι μάλισθʼ αἱ δυνάμεις αὐτῶν οὖσαι καὶ προθυμίᾳ ὁμοίᾳ χωροῦσαι πρὸς τὸν ἀγῶνα ἀμφότεραι.
Their forces happened to be almost equal in number and both advanced to the contest with equal eagerness.
πρώτη μὲν οὖν ἐγένετο τῶν ἱππέων μάχη βραχεῖά τις εὐθὺς ἅμα τῷ συνιδεῖν ἀλλήλους πρὶν ἢ τοὺς πεζοὺς καταστρατοπεδεύεσθαι, ἐν ᾗ διάπειραν ἀλλήλων λαβόντες καὶ οὔτε νικήσαντες οὔτε λειφθέντες πρὸς τοὺς ἑαυτῶν ἑκάτεροι χάρακας ἀπηλλάγησαν·
First, therefore, a brief battle of the cavalry took place immediately upon their catching sight of each other, before the infantry encamped; in this, having made trial of each other and neither winning nor being defeated, both sides withdrew to their own entrenchments.
ἔπειτα οἵ τε ὁπλῖται καὶ οἱ ἱππεῖς ἀφʼ ἑκατέρων συνῄεσαν ταξάμενοι τὸν αὐτὸν ἀλλήλοις τρόπον, μέσην μὲν τὴν φάλαγγα τῶν πεζῶν ποιήσαντες, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν κεράτων ἀμφοτέρων τὴν ἵππον στήσαντες.
After that, both the hoplites and the cavalry from each side came together, having drawn themselves up in the same manner as each other, making the phalanx of the infantry their center, and placing the cavalry on both wings.
§5.14.3ἡγεῖτο δὲ τοῦ μὲν δεξιοῦ Ῥωμαίων κέρατος Οὐαλέριος ὁ προσαιρεθεὶς ὕπατος ἐναντίαν στάσιν ἔχων Οὐιεντανοῖς, τοῦ δʼ εὐωνύμου Βροῦτος, καθʼ ὃ μέρος ἡ Ταρκυνιητῶν δύναμις ἦν· ἡγεμόνες δʼ αὐτὴν ἐκόσμουν οἱ Ταρκυνίου τοῦ βασιλέως παῖδες.
Valerius, the newly elected consul, commanded the right wing of the Romans, holding a position opposite to the Veientes, and Brutus commanded the left, where the force of the Tarquinienses was; and the sons of King Tarquinius commanded and marshaled it.