§2.16.1consules M. Valerius P. Postumius.
The consuls were Marcus Valerius and Publius Postumius.
eo anno bene pugnatum cum Sabinis; §2.16.2consules triumpharunt.
In that year there was successful fighting with the Sabines; the consuls celebrated a triumph.
maiore inde mole Sabini bellum parabant.
Then, with a greater force, the Sabines prepared for war.
adversus eos et ne quid simul ab Tusculo, unde, etsi non apertum, suspectum tamen bellum erat, repentini periculi oriretur, P. Valerius quartum T. Lucretius iterum consules facti.
Against them, and lest any sudden danger should arise at the same time from Tusculum, from where, although not open, a suspected war was nevertheless feared, Publius Valerius for the fourth time and Titus Lucretius for the second time were made consuls.
§2.16.3seditio inter belli pacisque auctores orta in Sabinis aliquantum inde virium transtulit ad Romanos.
Dissension arising among the Sabines between the advocates of war and of peace transferred some considerable portion of their strength from there to the Romans.
namque Attius Clausus, §2.16.4cui postea Appio Claudio fuit Romae nomen, cum pacis ipse auctor a turbatoribus belli premeretur nec par factioni esset, ab Inregillo, magna clientium comitatus manu, Romam transfugit.
For Attius Clausus, who afterwards had the name of Appius Claudius at Rome, since he, being himself an advocate of peace, was hard pressed by the agitators of war and was no match for their faction, fled from Inregillum to Rome, accompanied by a large band of clients.
his civitas data agerque trans Anienem: §2.16.5vetus Claudia tribus additis postea novis tribulibus, qui ex eo venirent agro, appellata.
Citizenship was given to these, and land across the Anio: this was called the old Claudian tribe, with the addition of the new tribesmen who afterwards came from that territory.
Appius inter patres lectus haud ita multo post in principum dignationem pervenit.
Appius, having been chosen into the senate, not long after attained to the dignity of the leading men.
§2.16.6consules infesto exercitu in agrum Sabinum profecti cum ita vastatione, dein proelio adflixissent opes hostium, ut diu nihil inde rebellionis timeri posset.
The consuls, having set out into the Sabine territory with a hostile army, so shattered the resources of the enemy first by devastation, then by battle, that for a long time no rebellion was to be feared from there.
triumphantes Romam redierunt.
They returned to Rome in triumph.
§2.16.7P. Valerius, omnium consensu princeps belli pacisque artibus, anno post Agrippa Menenio P. Postumio consulibus moritur, gloria ingenti, copiis familiaribus adeo exiguis, ut funeri sumptus deesset: §2.16.8de publico est datus.
Publius Valerius, by common consent the leader in the arts of war and peace, died the year after in the consulship of Agrippa Menenius and Publius Postumius, with immense glory, but with family resources so scanty that the expense for his funeral was lacking: it was given from the public treasury.
luxere matronae ut Brutum.
The matrons mourned him as they had Brutus.
eodem anno duae coloniae Latinae, Pometia et Cora, ad Auruncos deficiunt.
In the same year, two Latin colonies, Pometia and Cora, revolted to the Aurunci.
cum Auruncis bellum initum, fusoque ingenti exercitu, qui se ingredientibus fines consulibus ferociter obtulerat, omne Auruncum bellum Pometiam compulsum est.
War was begun with the Aurunci, and after a huge army, which had fiercely offered itself to the consuls as they entered their borders, was routed, the whole Auruncan war was driven into Pometia.
§2.16.9nec magis post proelium quam in proelio a caedibus temperatum est: et caesi aliquanto plures erant quam capti, et captos passim trucidaverunt; ne ab obsidibus quidem, qui trecenti accepti numero erant, ira belli abstinuit.
Nor was there any more sparing of slaughter after the battle than in the battle: both the slain were considerably more numerous than the captured, and they slaughtered the captured everywhere; the rage of war did not abstain even from the hostages, who had been received to the number of three hundred.
et hoc anno Romae triumphatum.
In this year also a triumph was celebrated at Rome.