§10.12.1Brevis consultatio senatus fuit: ad unum omnes iungendum foedus cum Lucanis resque repetendas ab Samnitibus censent.
The consultation of the senate was brief: to a man, all voted that a treaty should be joined with the Lucanians and restitution demanded from the Samnites.
§10.12.2benigne responsum Lucanis ictumque foedus; fetiales missi, qui Samnitem decedere agro sociorum ac deducere exercitum finibus Lucanis iuberent, quibus obviam missi ab Samnitibus, qui denuntiarent, si quod adissent in Samnio concilium, haud inviolatos abituros.
A gracious answer was given to the Lucanians, and the treaty was struck; fetials were sent to order the Samnite to depart from the territory of the allies and to lead his army away from the Lucanian borders; to meet them, messengers were sent by the Samnites to warn that, if they entered any council in Samnium, they would not depart unharmed.
§10.12.3haec postquam audita sunt Romae, bellum Samnitibus et patres censuerunt et populus iussit.
After these things were heard at Rome, both the senators voted for war with the Samnites and the people ordered it.
consules inter se provincias partiti sunt: Scipioni Etruria, Fulvio Samnites obvenerunt, diversique ad suum quisque bellum proficiscuntur.
The consuls divided the provinces between themselves: Etruria fell to Scipio, the Samnites to Fulvius, and they set out in different directions, each to his own war.
Scipioni segne bellum §10.12.4et simile prioris anni militiae expectanti hostes ad Volaterras instructo agmine occurrerunt.
For Scipio, a sluggish war and one similar to the military service of the previous year was in store; as he was expecting this, the enemy met him with their army in battle array near Volaterrae.
§10.12.5pugnatum maiore parte diei magna utrimque caede; nox incertis, qua data victoria esset, intervenit.
The battle was fought for the greater part of the day with great slaughter on both sides; night intervened while it was uncertain to whom victory had been given.
lux insequens victorem victumque ostendit; nam Etrusci silentio noctis castra reliquerunt.
The following light showed the victor and the vanquished; for the Etruscans left their camp in the silence of the night.
§10.12.6Romanus egressus in aciem ubi profectione hostium concessam victoriam vide*, progressus ad castra vacuis cum plurima praeda — nam et stativa et trepide deserta fuerant — potitur.
The Roman, having gone out into line of battle, when he saw that victory had been conceded by the departure of the enemy, advanced to the camp and took possession of it, empty as it was, with very much plunder—for it had been a permanent camp and abandoned in panic.
§10.12.7inde in Faliscum agrum copiis reductis cum inpedimenta Faleriis cum modico praesidio reliquisset, expedito agmine ad depopulandos hostium fines incedit.
Then, having led his forces back into the Faliscan territory, when he had left the baggage at Falerii with a moderate guard, he advanced with an unencumbered army to lay waste the borders of the enemy.
§10.12.8omnia ferro ignique vastantur; praedae undique actae.
All things were devastated with fire and sword; plunder was driven from all sides.
nec solum modo vastum hosti relictum sed castellis etiam vicisque inlatus ignis; urbibus oppugnandis temperatum, in quas timor Etruscos conpulerat.
Nor was only a waste left to the enemy, but fire was also set to strongholds and villages; they abstained from attacking the cities, into which fear had driven the Etruscans.
§10.12.9Cn. Fulvi consulis clara pugna in Samnio ad Bovianum haudquaquam ambiguae victoriae fuit.
The famous battle of the consul Gnaeus Fulvius in Samnium near Bovianum was of a victory by no means doubtful.
Bovianum inde adgressus nec ita multo post Aufidenam vi cepit.
Having then attacked Bovianum, not so long after he took Aufidena by force.