§8.83.1παραλαμβάνουσι δὴ τὴν ὑπατείαν κατὰ τὸ ἑβδομηκοστόν τε καὶ διακοσιοστὸν ἔτος ἀπὸ τοῦ συνοικισμοῦ τῆς Ῥώμης Λεύκιος Αἰμίλιος Μαμέρκου υἱὸς καὶ Καίσων Φάβιος Καίσωνος υἱός, ἄρχοντος Ἀθήνησι Νικοδήμου.
Thus, in the two hundred and seventieth year from the founding of Rome, when Nicodemus was archon at Athens, Lucius Aemilius, the son of Mamercus, and Kaeso Fabius, the son of Kaeso, assumed the consulship.
οἷς κατʼ εὐχὴν συνέβη μηδὲν ὑπὸ τῆς πολιτικῆς ἐπιταραχθῆναι διχοστασίας πολέμων τὴν πόλιν περιστάντων ἀλλοεθνῶν.
To them, as they had prayed, it happened that they were not at all disturbed by civil dissension, even though wars of foreign nations surrounded the city.
§8.83.2ἐν ἅπασι μὲν οὖν ἔθνεσι καὶ τόποις Ἑλλήνων τε καὶ βαρβάρων φιλοῦσιν αἱ τῶν ἔξωθεν κακῶν ἀνάπαυλαι ἐμφυλίους τε καὶ ἐνδήμους ἐγείρειν πολέμους, μάλιστα δὲ τοῦτο πάσχουσιν, ὅσοι πολεμιστὴν καὶ κακόπαθον αἱροῦνται βίον ἐλευθερίας τε καὶ ἡγεμονίας πόθῳ.
Indeed, in all nations and places of both Greeks and barbarians, cessations from external evils are wont to stir up civil and domestic wars, and this is especially suffered by those who choose a warlike and painful life through a desire for liberty and hegemony.
χαλεπαὶ γὰρ αἱ μαθοῦσαι τοῦ πλείονος ἐφίεσθαι φύσεις ἐξειργόμεναι τῶν συνήθων ἔργων καρτερεῖν· καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οἱ φρονιμώτατοι τῶν ἡγεμόνων ἀεί τινας ἐκ τῶν ἀλλοεθνῶν ἀναζωπυροῦσιν ἔχθρας, κρείττονας ἡγούμενοι τῶν ἐντοπίων πολέμων τοὺς ἀλλοδαπούς.
For natures that have learned to desire more find it difficult to endure when they are excluded from their customary activities; and for this reason, the wisest of leaders always rekindle some enmities from foreign nations, deeming foreign wars better than domestic ones.
§8.83.3τότε δʼ οὖν, ὥσπερ ἔφην, κατὰ δαίμονα τοῖς ὑπάτοις συνέπεσον αἱ τῶν ὑπηκόων ἐπαναστάσεις.
At that time, then, as I said, by a divine favor it happened to the consuls that the uprisings of their subjects occurred.
Οὐολοῦσκοι γάρ, εἴτε τῇ πολιτικῇ Ῥωμαίων κινήσει πιστεύσαντες ὡς ἐκπεπολεμωμένου τοῦ δημοτικοῦ πρὸς τοὺς ἐν τέλει, εἴτε τῆς προτέρας ἥττης ἀμαχητὶ γενομένης αἰσχύνῃ παροξυνθέντες, εἴτʼ ἐπὶ ταῖς ἑαυτῶν δυνάμεσι πολλαῖς οὔσαις μέγα φρονήσαντες, §8.83.4εἴτε διὰ ταῦτα πάντα πολεμεῖν Ῥωμαίοις διέγνωσαν, καὶ συναγαγόντες ἐξ ἁπάσης πόλεως τὴν νεότητα, μέρει μέν τινι τῆς δυνάμεως ἐπὶ τὰς Ἑρνίκων τε καὶ Λατίνων πόλεις ἐστράτευσαν, τῇ δὲ λοιπῇ, ἣ πλείστη τʼ ἦν καὶ κρατίστη, τοὺς ἐπὶ τὰς πόλεις σφῶν ἥξοντας δέχεσθαι ἤμελλον.
For the Volscians, whether because they trusted in the political commotion of the Romans, on the ground that the plebeians had been driven into war against those in authority, or because they were provoked by the shame of their previous defeat having occurred without a fight, or because they took great pride in their own forces being numerous, or because of all these reasons, resolved to make war upon the Romans; and having assembled the youth from every city, with one part of their force they marched against the cities of the Hernicians and Latins, while with the remainder, which was the largest and strongest, they were about to receive those who would come against their own cities.
ταῦτα μαθοῦσι Ῥωμαίοις ἔδοξε διχῇ νέμειν τὰς δυνάμεις καὶ τῇ μὲν ἑτέρᾳ τὴν Ἑρνίκων τε καὶ Λατίνων διὰ φυλακῆς ἔχειν, τῇ δʼ ἑτέρᾳ τὴν Οὐολούσκων λεηλατεῖν.
When the Romans learned this, they resolved to divide their forces in two, and with one part to keep watch over the territory of the Hernicians and Latins, and with the other to ravage that of the Volscians.