§8.64.1τῷ δʼ ἑξῆς ἐνιαυτῷ Γάϊος μὲν Ἀκύλλιος καὶ Τῖτος Σίκκιος, ἄνδρες ἔμπειροι πολέμων, τὴν ὑπατείαν παρειλήφεσαν.
In the following year, Gaius Aquillius and Titus Siccius, men experienced in wars, took over the consulship.
ἡ δὲ βουλὴ προθέντων λόγον περὶ τοῦ πολέμου τῶν ὑπάτων πρῶτον ἐψηφίσατο πρεσβείαν πέμψαι πρὸς Ἕρνικας αἰτήσουσαν ὡς παρὰ φίλων τε καὶ ἐνσπόνδων δίκας νομίμους· ἠδίκητο γὰρ ἡ πόλις ὑπʼ αὐτῶν κατὰ τὴν Οὐολούσκων τε καὶ Αἰκανῶν ἐπιστρατείαν λῃστείαις τε καὶ καταδρομαῖς τῆς ὁμορούσης αὐτοῖς γῆς·
When the consuls proposed a motion concerning the war, the senate voted first to send an embassy to the Hernicians to demand lawful satisfaction as from friends and allies; for the city had been wronged by them during the expedition of the Volscians and Aequians by plundering and incursions into the land bordering on them.
ἕως δʼ ἂν τὰς παρʼ ἐκείνων λάβωσιν ἀποκρίσεις, στρατιὰν ὅσην δύνανται πλείστην καταγράφειν τοὺς ὑπάτους καὶ τοὺς συμμάχους πρεσβειῶν ἀποστολαῖς παρακαλεῖν σῖτόν τε καὶ ὅπλα καὶ χρήματα καὶ τἆλλα ὅσων ἔδει τῷ πολέμῳ διὰ πολυχειρίας παρασκευάσασθαι καὶ ἐν τάχει.
And they decreed that until they should receive their replies from them, the consuls should enroll as large an army as they could, and by sending embassies, summon the allies and prepare with many hands and in haste grain, weapons, money, and everything else that was necessary for the war.
§8.64.2ὡς δʼ ἀπήγγειλαν αὐτοῖς ἀναστρέψαντες οἱ πρέσβεις ἃς παρὰ τῶν Ἑρνίκων ἔλαβον ἀποκρίσεις, ὅτι συνθήκας μὲν οὔ φασιν αὐτοῖς εἶναι πρὸς Ῥωμαίους κοινῇ γενομένας οὐδέποτε, τὰς δὲ πρὸς βασιλέα Ταρκύνιον ὁμολογίας αἰτιῶνται λελύσθαι τήν τʼ ἀρχὴν ἀφαιρεθέντος ἐκείνου καὶ τεθνηκότος ἐπὶ τῆς ξένης·
When the ambassadors returned and reported to them the answers they had received from the Hernicians, it was that they denied they had ever had any treaties made in common with the Romans, and they claimed that the agreements made with King Tarquinius had been dissolved when he was deprived of his power and died in a foreign land.
εἰ δέ τινες ἁρπαγαὶ καὶ καταδρομαὶ τῆς χώρας ἐγένοντο διὰ λῃστηρίων, οὐκ ἀπὸ κοινῆς γνώμης γεγονέναι λέγουσιν, ἀλλʼ ἰδιωτῶν ἀδικήματα μετιόντων τὰ ἴδια, καὶ οὐδὲ τοὺς ταῦτα δράσαντας παρέχειν οἷοί τʼ εἰσὶν ἐπὶ δίκην, ἕτερα καὶ αὐτοὶ τοιαῦτα πεπονθέναι λέγοντες καὶ ἀντεγκαλοῦντες, §8.64.3ἄσμενοί τʼ εἰσι δέχεσθαι τὸν πόλεμον.
And if some plundering and incursions into the territory had occurred through robber bands, they said these had not occurred by common consent, but were the misdeeds of private individuals recovering their own property; and they were not even able to deliver up those who had done these things for trial, saying that they themselves had suffered other such treatments and made counter-charges, and that they were glad to accept the war.
ταῦτα ἡ βουλὴ μαθοῦσα ἐψηφίσατο νείμασθαι τὴν καταγραφεῖσαν ἐκ τῶν νεωτέρων στρατιὰν τριχῇ· τούτων δὲ τὴν μὲν μίαν ἄγοντα Γάϊον Ἀκύλλιον τὸν ὕπατον ὁμόσε τῇ Ἑρνίκων στρατιᾷ χωρεῖν· καὶ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι ἤδη ἦσαν ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις· τὴν δʼ ἑτέραν Τῖτον Σίκκιον ἐπὶ Οὐολούσκους ἄγειν, τὸν ἕτερον τῶν ὑπάτων, τὴν δὲ λοιπὴν τρίτην μερίδα παραλαβόντα Σπόριον Λάρκιον, ὃς ἦν ἀποδεδειγμένος ὑπὸ τῶν %5ὑπάτων ἔπαρχος τὴν ἔγγιστα τῆς πόλεως χώραν φυλάττειν·
The senate, having learned this, voted to divide the army enrolled from the younger men into three parts: of these, the consul Gaius Aquillius should lead one and march to encounter the army of the Hernicians (for they also were already under arms); the other consul, Titus Siccius, should lead the second against the Volscians; and Spurius Lartius, who had been appointed prefect by the consuls, should take the remaining third portion and guard the territory nearest to the city.
τοὺς δʼ ὑπὲρ τὸν στρατιωτικὸν κατάλογον, ὅσοι δύναμιν εἶχον ἔτι βαστάζειν ὅπλα, ταχθέντας ὑπὸ σημαίαις τάς τʼ ἄκρας φρουρεῖν τῆς πόλεως καὶ τὰ τείχη, μή τις αἰφνίδιος πολεμίων γένηται ἔφοδος ἐξεστρατευμένης τῆς νεότητος ἀθρόας· ἡγεῖσθαι δὲ τῆς δυνάμεως ταύτης Αὖλον Σεμπρώνιον Ἀτρατῖνον, ἄνδρα τῶν ὑπατικῶν.
Those who were beyond the military age-list, as many as still had strength to bear arms, were stationed under standards to guard the citadels and the walls of the city, lest any sudden attack of the enemy should occur when the youth had marched out all together; and Aulus Sempronius Atratinus, a man of consular rank, should lead this force.
ἐγίνετο δὲ ταῦτʼ οὐ διὰ μακροῦ.
And these things were done without much delay.