§10.10.1ceterum ad Nequinum oppidum cum segni obsidione tempus tereretur, duo ex oppidanis, quorum erant aedificia iuncta muro, specu facto ad stationes Romanas itinere occulto perveniunt; §10.10.2inde ad consulem deducti praesidium armatum se intra moenia et muros accepturos confirmant.
Meanwhile, when time was being wasted before the town of Nequinum by a sluggish blockade, two of the townsmen, whose buildings were joined to the wall, having made a tunnel, arrived at the Roman outposts by a secret route; led from there to the consul, they asserted that they would receive an armed guard within the walls and fortifications.
§10.10.3nec aspernanda res visa neque incaute credenda.
The proposal seemed neither to be rejected, nor to be incautiously believed.
cum altero eorum — nam alter obses retentus — duo exploratores per cuniculum missi; §10.10.4per quos satis conperta re trecenti armati transfuga duce in urbem ingressi nocte portam, quae proxima erat, cepere.
Along with one of them—for the other was retained as a hostage—two scouts were sent through the tunnel; when the matter had been sufficiently confirmed through them, three hundred armed men, under the leadership of the deserter, entered the city and in the night seized the gate that was nearest.
qua refracta consul exercitusque Romanus sine certamine urbem invasere.
This having been broken down, the consul and the Roman army entered the city without a struggle.
§10.10.5ita Nequinum in dicionem populi Romani venit.
Thus Nequinum came under the dominion of the Roman people.
colonia eo adversus Umbros missa a flumine Narnia appellata; exercitus cum magna praeda Romam reductus.
A colony was sent there against the Umbrians and called Narnia from the river; the army was led back to Rome with great booty.
§10.10.6eodem anno ab Etruscis adversus indutias paratur bellum; sed eos talia molientis Gallorum ingens exercitus finis ingressus paulisper a proposito avertit.
In the same year, war was prepared by the Etruscans contrary to the truce; but while they were planning such things, a huge army of Gauls entered their territory and averted them for a short time from their purpose.
pecunia deinde, §10.10.7qua multum poterant, freti socios ex hostibus facere Gallos conantur, ut eo adiuncto exercitu cum Romanis bellarent.
Then, relying on money, which they possessed in abundance, they attempted to make the Gauls allies instead of enemies, so that, with that army joined to them, they might wage war with the Romans.
§10.10.8de societate haud abnuunt barbari, de mercede agitur.
The barbarians did not refuse the alliance, and negotiations were held concerning the pay.
qua pacta acceptaque cum parata cetera ad bellum essent sequique Etruscus iuberet, infitias eunt mercedem se belli Romanis inferendi pactos: §10.10.9quidquid acceperint, accepisse, ne agrum Etruscum vastarent armisque lacesserent cultores; §10.10.10militaturos tamen se, si utique Etrusci velint, sed nulla alia mercede, quam ut in partem agri accipiantur tandemque aliqua sede certa consistant.
When this had been agreed upon and received, and when all other things were ready for war and the Etruscan ordered them to follow, they denied that they had agreed to the pay for the purpose of waging war on the Romans, asserting that whatever they had received, they had received it so that they would not devastate the Etruscan territory and harass the cultivators with arms; however, they would serve as soldiers if the Etruscans absolutely wished it, but for no other reward than that they should be received into a share of the land and finally settle in some fixed seat.
§10.10.11multa de eo concilia populorum Etruriae habita, nec perfici quicquam potuit, non tam quia inminui agrum quam quia accolas sibi quisque adiungere tam efferatae gentis homines horrebat.
Many councils of the peoples of Etruria were held concerning that matter, but nothing could be accomplished, not so much because they were reluctant to have their land diminished, as because everyone dreaded to add as neighbors to themselves men of so savage a race.
§10.10.12ita dimissi Galli pecuniam ingentem sine labore ac periculo partam rettulerunt.
Thus dismissed, the Gauls carried back a huge sum of money, acquired without labor or danger.
Romae terrorem praebuit fama Gallici tumultus ad bellum Etruscum adiecti; eo minus cunctanter foedus ictum cum Picenti populo est.
At Rome, the rumor of a Gallic tumult added to the Etruscan war caused terror; therefore, with less hesitation, a treaty was struck with the Picentian people.