§9.14.1ἑλομένης δὲ τῆς βουλῆς μεσοβασιλεῖς τῶν ἀρχαιρεσίων ἕνεκα, καὶ τοῦ δευτέρου μεσοβασιλέως συγκαλέσαντος εἰς τὸ πεδίον τοὺς λόχους, ἀποδείκνυται Καίσων Φάβιος ὁ τὰ ἀριστεῖα λαβὼν ἐκ τῆς μάχης, ἀδελφὸς δὲ τοῦ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀποθεμένου, τὸ τρίτον ὕπατος καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ Τῖτος Οὐεργίνιος.
When the senate had chosen interreges for the sake of the elections, and the second interrex had called the centuries to the plain, Caeso Fabius, who had received the rewards of valor from the battle and was the brother of the one who had laid down his office, was appointed consul for the third time, and with him Titus Virginius.
οὗτοι διαλαχόντες τὰς δυνάμεις ἐξῄεσαν εἰς τὴν ὕπαιθρον·
These, having distributed the forces, went out into the field.
§9.14.2Φάβιος μὲν Αἰκανοῖς πολεμήσων προνομεύουσι τοὺς Λατίνων ἀγρούς, Οὐεργίνιος δὲ Οὐιεντανοῖς.
Fabius went out to make war on the Aequi who were plundering the fields of the Latins, and Virginius against the Veientes.
Αἰκανοὶ μὲν οὖν ἐπειδὴ στρατὸν ἐλευσόμενον ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἔγνωσαν, ἀναστάντες ἐκ τῆς πολεμίας διὰ τάχους ἀπῆλθον εἰς τὰς ἑαυτῶν πόλεις· καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα λεηλατουμένης τῆς σφετέρας γῆς ἠνείχοντο, ὥστε πολλῶν κρατῆσαι χρημάτων τὸν ὕπατον καὶ σωμάτων καὶ τῆς ἄλλης λείας ἐξ ἐφόδου.
The Aequi indeed, when they knew that an army was going to come against them, arose from the enemy's territory and quickly departed to their own cities; and after this they endured their land being plundered, so that the consul immediately captured many goods, captives, and other booty at the first onset.
Οὐιεντανοὶ δὲ κατʼ ἀρχὰς ἐντὸς τείχους μένοντες, ἐπειδὴ καιρὸν ἔχειν ἔδοξαν ἐπιτήδειον, ἐπέθεντο τοῖς πολεμίοις ἐσκεδασμένοις ἀνὰ τὰ πεδία καὶ πρὸς ἁρπαγὴν τετραμμένοις τῆς λείας.
But the Veientes, remaining at first within their walls, when they thought they had a suitable opportunity, fell upon the enemy who were scattered through the plains and turned to the plundering of the booty.
§9.14.3ἔχοντες δὲ πολλὴν καὶ συντεταγμένην δύναμιν ἐμβάλλουσιν εἰς αὐτούς, καὶ τήν τε λείαν ἀφαιροῦνται, καὶ τοὺς ὁμόσε χωροῦντας, οὓς μὲν ἀποκτείνουσιν, οὓς δʼ εἰς φυγὴν τρέπουσι·
Having a large and organized force, they fell upon them, and both took away the booty, and of those who came to close quarters, some they killed and others they put to flight.
καὶ εἰ μὴ Τῖτος Σίκκιος πρεσβευτὴς τότʼ ὢν στίφει συντεταγμένῳ πεζῶν τε καὶ ἱππέων παραβοηθήσας ἐπέσχεν αὐτούς, οὐδὲν ἂν τὸ κωλῦσον ἦν ἅπασαν ἀπολέσθαι τὴν στρατιάν.
And if Titus Siccius, who was then a legate, had not brought aid with a well-ordered body of infantry and cavalry and held them back, there would have been nothing to prevent the entire army from being destroyed.
ἐκείνου δʼ ἐμποδὼν γενομένου συνελθεῖν ἔφθασαν οἱ λοιποὶ οἱ καθʼ ἕνα διεσκεδασμένοι· πάντες δʼ ἐν ταὐτῷ γενόμενοι λόφον τινὰ καταλαμβάνονται περὶ δείλην ὀψίαν, καὶ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν νύκτα ἐν τούτῳ ἔμειναν.
But when he stood in the way, the rest, who had been scattered one by one, succeeded in coming together; and all having come to the same place, they occupied a certain hill late in the evening, and remained on it for the following night.
§9.14.4ἐπαρθέντες δὲ Οὐιεντανοὶ τῷ κατορθώματι πλησίον τοῦ λόφου τίθενται τὰ ὅπλα, καὶ τοὺς ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἐκάλουν ὡς κατακεκλεικότες τοὺς Ῥωμαίους εἰς χωρίον, ἔνθα οὐδὲν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων ἔμελλον ἕξειν, καὶ προσαναγκάσοντες οὐκ εἰς μακρὰν παραδοῦναι σφίσι τὰ ὅπλα.
Elated by their success, the Veientes pitched their camp near the hill, and ¦1776 summoned those from the city, on the ground that they had shut up the Romans in a place where they were going to have none of the provisions, and would soon force them to surrender their arms.
γίνεταί τʼ αὐτῶν συχνοῦ ἐλθόντος ὄχλου δύο στρατεύματα περὶ τὰς ἐπιμάχους λαγόνας τοῦ λόφου, πολλά τʼ ἄλλα φρούρια βραχύτερα κατὰ τοὺς ἧττον ἐπικαίρους τόπους· καὶ πάντα ἦν μεστὰ §9.14.5ὅπλων.
And when a large crowd of them came, two camps were formed around the vulnerable sides of the hill, and many other smaller outposts in the less critical places; and everything was full of arms.
ὁ δʼ ἕτερος τῶν ὑπάτων Φάβιος γραμμάτων παρὰ τοῦ συνάρχοντος ἀφικομένων ἐπιγνούς, ὅτι ἐν ἐσχάτοις εἰσὶν οἱ κατακλεισθέντες ἐν τῷ λόφῳ, καὶ κινδυνεύσουσιν, εἰ μή τις αὐτοῖς βοηθήσει, λιμῷ ἁλῶναι, ἀναστήσας τὸν στρατὸν ἦγεν ἐπὶ τοὺς Οὐιεντανοὺς σὺν τάχει·
But the other of the consuls, Fabius, having learned from letters arriving from his colleague that those shut up on the hill were in extreme danger, and would risk being taken by hunger unless someone aided them, moved his army and led them in haste against the Veientes.
καὶ εἰ μιᾷ βραδύτερον ἡμέρᾳ διήνυσε τὴν ὁδόν, οὐδὲν ἂν ὤνησεν, ἀλλὰ διεφθαρμένην τὴν ἐκεῖ στρατιὰν κατέλαβε.
And if he had finished his journey one day later, he would have been of no help, but would have found the army there already destroyed.
πιεζόμενοι γὰρ τῇ σπάνει τῶν ἀναγκαίων οἱ κατέχοντες τὸν λόφον ἐξῆλθον ὡς τὸν εὐπρεπέστατον αἱρησόμενοι τῶν θανάτων, καὶ συμβαλόντες τοῖς πολεμίοις ἐμάχοντο κεκμηκότες οἱ πλείους τὰ σώματα λιμῷ τε καὶ δίψῃ καὶ ἀγρυπνίᾳ καὶ τῇ §9.14.6ἄλλῃ κακώσει.
For those holding the hill, hard pressed by the lack of necessaries, went out intending to choose the most honorable of deaths, and engaging with the enemy, they fought, most of them exhausted in body by hunger, thirst, sleeplessness, and other suffering.
μετʼ οὐ πολὺ δʼ ὡς τὸ τοῦ Φαβίου στράτευμα προσιὸν ὤφθη πολύ τε καὶ συντεταγμένον, θάρσος μὲν ἔφερε τοῖς σφετέροις, δέος δὲ τοῖς πολεμίοις·
But not long after, when the army of Fabius was seen approaching, large and well-ordered, it brought courage to their own men and fear to the enemy.
καὶ οἱ Τυρρηνοὶ οὐκέτι ἀξιόμαχοι εἶναι νομίσαντες πρὸς ἀγαθήν τε καὶ ἀκμῆτα δύναμιν εἰς ἀγῶνα χωρεῖν, ᾤχοντο ἐκλιπόντες τοὺς χάρακας.
And the Tyrrhenians, thinking they were no longer a match to enter into a struggle against a fresh and vigorous force, departed, abandoning their camps.
ὡς δʼ εἰς ταὐτὸ συνῆλθον αἱ τῶν Ῥωμαίων δυνάμεις ἀμφότεραι, στρατόπεδόν τε ποιοῦνται μέγα πλησίον τῆς πόλεως ἐν ἐχυρῷ, καὶ πολλὰς ἡμέρας αὐτόθι διατρίψαντες καὶ τὴν ἀρίστην τῶν Οὐιεντανῶν χώραν λεηλατήσαντες ἀπῆγον ἐπʼ οἴκου τὴν στρατιάν.
When both forces of the Romans came together to the same place, they made a large camp in a strong position near the city, and having spent many days there and plundered the best of the territory of the Veientes, they led the army back home.
§9.14.7ὡς δʼ ἔγνωσαν οἱ Οὐιεντανοὶ τὰς δυνάμεις τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀφειμένας ἀπὸ τῶν σημαιῶν, τὴν εὔζωνον ἀναλαβόντες νεότητα, ἥν τʼ αὐτοὶ συντεταγμένην εἶχον καὶ τὴν παρὰ τῶν πλησιοχώρων παροῦσαν, ἐμβάλλουσιν εἰς τὰ προσκείμενα τῇ σφετέρᾳ χώρᾳ πεδία, καὶ διαρπάζουσι καρπῶν τε καὶ βοσκημάτων καὶ ἀνθρώπων ὄντα μεστά.
But when the Veientes knew that the forces of the Romans had been dismissed from their standards, taking their light-armed youth, both what they themselves had organized and what was present from their neighbors, they invaded the plains adjacent to their own territory, and plundered what was full of fruits, cattle, and men.
κατέβησαν γὰρ ἐκ τῶν ἐρυμάτων οἱ γεωργοὶ χιλοῦ τε τῶν βοσκημάτων ἕνεκα καὶ ἐργασίας τῶν ἀγρῶν πιστεύοντες τῇ σφετέρᾳ στρατιᾷ προκαθημένῃ καὶ οὐ φθάσαντες ἀπελθούσης ἀνασκευάσασθαι πάλιν, οὐκ ἐλπίσαντες τοσαῦτα κεκακωμένους τοὺς Οὐιεντανοὺς ταχεῖαν οὕτως ἀντεπιχείρησιν κατὰ τοῦ ἀντιπάλου ποιήσεσθαι.
For the husbandmen had come down from the strongholds for the sake of fodder for the cattle and the cultivation of the fields, trusting in their own army which was stationed in front of them, and did not succeed in packing up their goods again when it departed, not expecting that the Veientes, who had been so severely damaged, would make such a swift counter-attack against their opponent.
§9.14.8αὕτη χρόνου μὲν μήκει βραχεῖα ἐγένετο ἡ τῶν Οὐιεντανῶν εἰς τὴν Ῥωμαίων γῆν ἐμβολή, πλήθει δὲ χώρας, ἣν ἐπῆλθον, ἐν τοῖς πάνυ μεγάλη, καὶ ἀχθηδόνα σὺν αἰσχύνῃ Ῥωμαίοις ἀήθη παρέσχεν ἄχρι Τιβέριός τε ποταμοῦ καὶ ὄρους Ἰανίκλου στάδια τῆς Ῥώμης οὐδʼ εἴκοσιν ἀφεστῶτος ἀφικομένη.
This invasion of the Veientes into the territory of the Romans was short in length of time, but very great in the amount of territory they overran, and brought unusual pain along with shame to the Romans, reaching as far as the river Tiber and the Janiculum hill, which is not even twenty stades away from Rome.
κωλύσουσα γὰρ δύναμις ἐπὶ πλεῖον χωρεῖν τὰ πολέμια οὐκ ἦν ὑπὸ σημαίαις.
For there was no force under standards to prevent the enemy from advancing further.
ἔφθασε γοῦν τὸ τῶν Οὐιεντανῶν στράτευμα πρὶν ἢ συνελθεῖν τε καὶ λοχισθῆναι τοὺς Ῥωμαίους ἀπελθόν.
At all events, the army of the Veientes succeeded in departing before the Romans could assemble and be formed into centuries.