§10.2.1eodem anno classis Graecorum Cleonymo duce Lacedaemonio ad Italiae litora adpulsa Thurias urbem in Sallentinis cepit.
In the same year, a fleet of the Greeks, under the leadership of Cleonymus the Lacedaemonian, having run putting in to the shores of Italy, captured the city of Thuriae in the territory of the Sallentini.
§10.2.2adversus hunc hostem consul Aemilius missus proelio uno fugatum conpulit in naves.
Against this enemy, the consul Aemilius, being sent, put them to flight in a single battle and drove them to their ships.
Thuriae redditae veteri cultori, Sallentinoque agro pax parta.
Thuriae was restored to its ancient inhabitants, and peace was secured for the Sallentine territory.
§10.2.3Iunium Bubulcum dictatorem missum in Sallentinos in quibusdam annalibus invenio et Cleonymum, priusquam confligendum esset cum Romanis, Italia excessisse.
I find in some annals that the dictator Iunius Bubulcus was sent against the Sallentini, and that Cleonymus departed from Italy before he had to clash with the Romans.
§10.2.4circumvectus inde Brundisii promunturium medioque sinu Hadriatico ventis latus, cum laeva inportuosa Italiae litora, dextra Illyrii Liburnique et Histri, gentes ferae et magna ex parte latrociniis maritimis infames, terrerent, penitus ad litora Venetorum pervenit.
Having then sailed around the promontory of Brundisium and being carried by the winds through the middle of the Adriatic gulf, while the harborless shores of Italy on the left, and on the right the Illyrians, Liburnians, and Histrians — savage nations and for the most part infamous for maritime robberies — caused terror, he penetrated deep to the shores of the Veneti.
§10.2.5expositis paucist qui loca explorarent, cum audisset tenue praetentum litus esse, quod transgressis stagna ex adverso sint inrigua aestibus maritimis; agros haud procul proximos campestres cerni, ulteriora colles videri esse; §10.2.6ostium fluminis praealti, quo circumagi naves in stationem tutam possent, vidisse — Meduacus amnis erat —: eo invectam classem subire flumine adverso iussit.
Having landed a few men to explore the country, when he heard that a narrow strip of shore lay stretched before them, and that to those who crossed it there were lagoons on the opposite side, watered by the ocean tides; that nearby open fields could be seen not far off, and further back hills appeared to rise; and that they had seen the mouth of a very deep river — it was the river Meduacus — in which ships could be turned about into a safe station: he ordered the fleet, having entered there, to go up against the current of the river.
§10.2.7gravissumas navium non pertulit alveus fluminis; in leviora navigia transgressa multitudo armatorum ad frequentes agros, tribus maritimis Patavinorum vicis colentibus eam oram, pervenit.
The channel of the river did not bear the heaviest of the ships; having transferred into lighter vessels, the multitude of armed men reached the thickly populated lands, where three maritime villages of the Patavians inhabited that shore.
§10.2.8ibi egressi praesidio levi navibus relicto vicos expugnant, inflammant tecta, hominum pecudumque praedas agunt et dulcedine praedandi longius usque a navibus procedunt.
Landing there, having left a light guard for the ships, they stormed the villages, set fire to the houses, drove off booties of men and cattle, and led on by the sweetness of plundering proceeded still further from their ships.
haec ubi Patavium sunt nuntiata — §10.2.9semper autem eos in armis accolae Galli habebant —, in duas partes iuventutem dividunt.
When these things were reported to Patavium — — and the neighboring Gauls always kept them in arms — they divided their youth into two parts.
altera in regionem, qua effusa populatio nuntiabatur, altera, ne cui praedonum obvia fieret, diverso itinere ad stationem navium milia autem quattuordecim ab oppido aberat — ducta.
One part was led into the district where the scattered plundering was reported, the other, lest it should meet any of the plunderers, by a different route to the station of the ships — which was fourteen miles distant from the town.
in naves paucis custodibus interemptis impetus factus, §10.2.10territique nautae coguntur naves in alteram ripam amnis traicere.
An attack was made upon the ships, after the few guards were slain, and the terrified sailors were forced to cross their ships to the opposite bank of the river.
et in terra prosperum aeque in palatos praedatores proelium fuerat, refugientibusque ad stationem Graecis Veneti obsistunt; §10.2.11ita in medio circumventi hostes caesique; pars capti classem indicant regemque Cleonymum tria milia abesse.
On land too, the battle had been equally successful against the scattered plunderers, and as the Greeks fled back to their station, the Veneti blocked their way; thus hemmed in the middle, the enemy were surrounded and slain; a part of the captives revealed the location of the fleet, and that king Cleonymus was three miles away.
§10.2.12inde captivis proximo vico in custodiam datis pars fluviatiles naves, ad superanda vada stagnorum apte planis alveis fabricatas, pars captiva navigia armatis conplent profectique ad classem immobiles naves et loca ignota plus quam hostem timentes circumvadunt
Then, having placed the captives under guard in the nearest village, some filled the river boats, built with flat bottoms appropriately for passing over the shallows of the lagoons, and others the captured vessels, with armed men, and having set out for the fleet, they surrounded and attacked the motionless ships and those who feared unknown places more than the enemy.
§10.2.13fugientesque in altum acrius quam repugnantes usque ad ostium amnis persecuti captis quibusdam incensisque navibus hostium, quas trepidatio in vada intulerat, victores revertuntur.
Pursuing those who fled into the deep more eagerly than those who resisted, all the way to the mouth of the river, and having captured and burned some ships of the enemy, which panic had driven into the shallows, they returned as victors.
Cleonymus vix quinta parte navium incolumi, §10.2.14nulla regione maris Hadriatici prospere adita, discessit.
Cleonymus, with scarcely a fifth part of his ships unharmed, departed, having approached no region of the Adriatic Sea with success.
rostra navium spoliaque Laconum in aede Iunonis veteri fixa multi supersunt qui viderunt Patavii.
There remain many who have seen the rostra of the ships and the spoils of the Laconians fixed in the ancient temple of Juno at Patavium.
§10.2.15monumentum navalis pugnae eo die, quo pugnatum est, quotannis sollemne certamen navium in flumine oppidi medio exercetur.
As a monument of this naval battle, on the day on which it was fought, every year a solemn contest of ships is performed in the river that flows through the middle of the town.