§8.30.1προχωρεῖν τὴν πρᾶξιν εἴχετο τῶν προκειμένων.
being filled with joy at the success of his plan, as the enterprise was progressing, he devoted himself to the immediate tasks.
ἀπομερίσας δὲ τῶν Κελτῶν εἰς δισχιλίους, καὶ διελὼν εἰς τρία μέρη τούτους, συνέστησε τῶν νεανίσκων δύο πρὸς ἕκαστον μέρος τῶν χειριζόντων τὴν πρᾶξιν.
Having set aside about two thousand of the Celts, and having divided them into three parts, he assigned to each part two of the young men who were conducting the enterprise.
§8.30.2ἀκολούθως δὲ καὶ τῶν παρʼ αὑτοῦ τινας ἡγεμόνων συνεξαπέστειλε, προστάξας διαλαβεῖν τῶν εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν φερουσῶν ὁδῶν τὰς εὐκαιροτάτας.
In a similar manner, he also sent out with them some of his own officers, ordering them to occupy the most convenient of the streets leading to the agora.
§8.30.3ὅταν δὲ τοῦτο πράξωσι, τοῖς μὲν ἐγχωρίοις νεανίσκοις ἐξαιρεῖσθαι παρήγγειλε καὶ σῴζειν τοὺς ἐντυγχάνοντας τῶν πολιτῶν, ἀναβοῶντας ἐκ πολλοῦ μένειν κατὰ χώραν Ταραντίνους, ὡς ὑπαρχούσης αὐτοῖς τῆς ἀσφαλείας,
And when they should have done this, he instructed the local young men to select and save those of the citizens whom they met, crying out from afar that the Tarentines should remain where they were, since their safety was assured.
§8.30.4τοῖς δὲ παρὰ τῶν Καρχηδονίων καὶ τῶν Κελτῶν ἡγεμόσι κτείνειν διεκελεύσατο τοὺς ἐντυγχάνοντας τῶν Ῥωμαίων.
But to the officers of the Carthaginians and Celts, he gave orders to kill any of the Romans they met.
οὗτοι μὲν οὖν χωρισθέντες ἀλλήλων ἔπραττον μετὰ ταῦτα τὸ προσταχθέν.
These, then, having separated from one another, proceeded to carry out their orders.
§8.30.5τῆς δὲ τῶν πολεμίων εἰσόδου καταφανοῦς ἤδη γενομένης τοῖς Ταραντίνοις, πλήρης ἡ πόλις κραυγῆς ἐγίνετο καὶ ταραχῆς παρηλλαγμένης.
The entry of the enemy having now become manifest to the Tarentines, the city became full of clamour and extraordinary confusion.
§8.30.6ὁ μὲν οὖν Γάϊος, προσπεσούσης αὐτῷ τῆς εἰσόδου τῶν πολεμίων, συννοήσας ἀδύνατον αὑτὸν ὄντα διὰ τὴν μέθην, εὐθέως ἐξελθὼν ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας μετὰ τῶν οἰκετῶν καὶ παραγενόμενος ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην τὴν φέρουσαν ἐπὶ τὸν λιμένα, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα τοῦ φύλακος ἀνοίξαντος αὐτῷ τὴν ῥινοπύλην, διαδὺς ταύτῃ καὶ λαβόμενος ἀκατίου τῶν ὁρμούντων, ἐμβὰς μετὰ τῶν οἰκετῶν εἰς τὴν ἄκραν παρεκομίσθη.
Now Gaius, when the entry of the enemy was reported to him, realizing that he was incapable of action owing to his drunkenness, immediately went out of his house with his servants and reached the gate leading to the harbor, and afterwards, the guard having opened the Rhinopyle for him, he slipped through it, and laying hold of one of the boats riding at anchor, embarked with his servants and was conveyed safely to the citadel.
§8.30.7κατὰ δὲ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον οἱ περὶ τὸν Φιλήμενον, ἡτοιμασμένοι σάλπιγγας Ῥωμαϊκὰς καί τινας τῶν αὐταῖς χρῆσθαι δυναμένων διὰ τὴν συνήθειαν, στάντες ἐπὶ τὸ θέατρον ἐσήμαινον.
At this juncture Philemenus and his men, having prepared Roman trumpets and some who were able to blow them owing to their familiarity with them, stood in the theatre and sounded the signal.
§8.30.8τῶν δὲ Ῥωμαίων βοηθούντων ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις κατὰ τὸν ἐθισμὸν εἰς τὴν ἄκραν, ἐχώρει τὸ πρᾶγμα κατὰ τὴν πρόθεσιν τοῖς Καρχηδονίοις·
While the Romans, according to their custom, were rushing in arms to the citadel to give assistance, the affair turned out according to the design of the Carthaginians.
§8.30.9παραγενόμενοι γὰρ ταῖς πλατείαις ἀτάκτως καὶ σποράδην οἱ μὲν εἰς τοὺς Καρχηδονίους ἐνέπιπτον, οἱ δʼ εἰς τοὺς Κελτούς· καὶ δὴ τῷ τοιούτῳ τρόπῳ φονευομένων αὐτῶν πολύ τι πλῆθος διεφθάρη.
For arriving in the streets in disorder and scattered, some fell in with the Carthaginians and others with the Celts; and indeed, being slaughtered in this manner, a very great number of them was destroyed.
§8.30.10τῆς δʼ ἡμέρας ἐπιφαινομένης οἱ μὲν Ταραντῖνοι τὴν ἡσυχίαν εἶχον κατὰ τὰς οἰκήσεις, οὐδέπω δυνάμενοι τάξασθαι τὸ συμβαῖνον.
As day began to appear, the Tarentines remained quiet in their houses, being not yet able to make out what was happening.
§8.30.11διὰ μὲν γὰρ τὴν σάλπιγγα καὶ τὸ μηδὲν ἀδίκημα γίνεσθαι μηδʼ ἁρπαγὴν κατὰ τὴν πόλιν, ἔδοξαν ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν Ῥωμαίων εἶναι τὸ κίνημα.
For owing to the trumpet-call and to the fact that no outrage or plundering was taking place throughout the city, they thought that the movement originated from the Romans themselves.
§8.30.12τὸ δὲ πολλοὺς αὐτῶν ὁρᾶν πεφονευμένους ἐν ταῖς πλατείαις, καί τινας τῶν Γαλατῶν θεωρεῖσθαι σκυλεύοντας τοὺς τῶν Ῥωμαίων νεκρούς, ὑπέτρεχέ τις ἔννοια τῆς τῶν Καρχηδονίων παρουσίας.
But seeing many of them slaughtered in the streets, and some of the Gauls being observed stripping the corpses of the Romans, a suspicion of the presence of the Carthaginians began to steal into their minds.