§10.11.1T. Manlio consuli provincia Etruria sorte evenit; qui vixdum ingressus hostium finis cum exerceretur inter equites, ab rapido cursu circumagendo equo effusus extemplo prope expiravit.
The province of Etruria fell by lot to the consul Titus Manlius; who, having scarcely entered the enemy's territory, while he was exercising among the cavalry, was thrown from his horse as he was turning it from a rapid gallop, and immediately was almost expired.
tertius ab eo casu dies finis vitae consuli fuit.
The third day after that accident was the end of life for the consul.
§10.11.2quo velut omine belli accepto deos pro se commisisse bellum memorantes Etrusci sustulere animos.
The Etruscans, receiving this as if an omen of war, and asserting that the gods had joined battle on their behalf, raised their spirits.
§10.11.3Romae cum desiderio viri tum incommoditate temporis tristis nuntius fuit; patres ab iubendo dictatore consulis subrogandi comitia ex sententia principum habita deterruerunt.
At Rome, the news was sorrowful both on account of regret for the man and because of the inconvenience of the season; the holding of the comitia for substituting a consul, which was conducted according to the opinion of the leading men, deterred the senators from ordering a dictator.
§10.11.4M. Valerium consulem omnes sententiae centuriaeque dixere, quem senatus dictatorem dici iussurus fuerat.
All the votes and centuries declared Marcus Valerius as consul, whom the senate had been going to order to be declared dictator.
tum extemplo in Etruriam ad legiones proficisci iussit.
Then immediately it ordered him to set out to the legions in Etruria.
§10.11.5adventus eius conpressit Etruscos adeo, ut nemo extra munimenta egredi auderet timorque ipsorum obsidioni similis esset.
His arrival so repressed the Etruscans that no one dared to step outside the fortifications, and their own fear was like a blockade.
§10.11.6neque illos novus consul vastandis agris urendisque tectis, cum passim non villae solum sed frequentes quoque vici incendiis fumarent, elicere ad certamen potuit.
Nor could the new consul, by devastating the lands and burning the houses—though everywhere not only farmhouses but also populous villages were smoking with fires—entice them to battle.
§10.11.7cum hoc segnius bellum opinione esset, alterius belli, quod multis in vicem cladibus haud inmerito terribile erat, fama Picentium, novorum sociorum, indicio exorta est: Samnites arma et rebellionem spectare seque ab iis sollicitatos esse.
While this war was slower than expectation, the rumor of another war, which on account of many mutual disasters was not without merit terrible, arose on the information of the Picentines, the new allies: that the Samnites were looking to arms and rebellion, and that they themselves had been solicited by them.
§10.11.8Picentibus gratiae actae et magna pars curae patribus ab Etruria in Samnites versa est.
Thanks were given to the Picentines, and a great part of the concern of the senators was turned from Etruria to the Samnites.
§10.11.9caritas etiam annonae sollicitam civitatem habuit ventumque ad inopiae ultimum foret, ut scripsere, quibus aedilem fuisse eo anno Fabium Maximum placet, ni eius viri cura, qualis in bellicis rebus multis tempestatibus fuerat, talis domi tum in annonae dispensatione praeparando ac convehendo frumento fuisset.
The high price of provisions also kept the state anxious, and it would have come to the extremity of want, as those wrote who assert that Fabius Maximus was aedile that year, had not the care of that man, such as it had been in military affairs on many difficult occasions, been such at home then in the distribution of provisions and in procuring and bringing in grain.
§10.11.10eo anno — nec traditur causa — interregnum initum.
In that year—nor is the cause recorded—an interregnum was entered upon.
interreges fuere Ap. Claudius, dein P. Sulpicius.
The interreges were Appius Claudius, then Publius Sulpicius.
is comitia consularia habuit; creavit L. Cornelium Scipionem, Cn. Fulvium consules.
He held the consular comitia; he elected Lucius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus Fulvius as consuls.
§10.11.11principio huius anni oratores Lucanorum ad novos consules venerunt questum, quia condicionibus perlicere se nequiverint ad societatem armorum, Samnites infesto exercitu ingressos fines suos vastare belloque ad bellum cogere.
At the beginning of this year, envoys of the Lucanians came to the new consuls to complain that, because they could not entice them by conditions to an alliance of arms, the Samnites had entered their territory with a hostile army, were devastating it, and by war were forcing them to war.
§10.11.12Lucano populo satis superque erratum quondam, nunc ita obstinatos animos esse, ut omnia ferre ac pati tolerabilius ducant, quam ut umquam postea nomen Romanum violent.
For the Lucanian people, they had erred enough and more than enough once, and now their minds were so resolved that they considered it more tolerable to bear and suffer all things than that they should ever after violate the Roman name.
§10.11.13orare patres, ut et Lucanos in fidem accipiant et vim atque iniuriam ab se Samnitium arceant: se, quamquam bello cum Samnitibus suscepto necessaria iam facta adversus Romanos fides sit, tamen obsides dare paratos esse.
They prayed the senators both to receive the Lucanians into protection and to ward off from them the violence and injustice of the Samnites; they, although by undertaking war with the Samnites loyalty toward the Romans had already been made necessary, were nevertheless ready to give hostages.