§2.51.1cum haec accepta clades est, iam C. Horatius et T. Menenius consules erant.
When this defeat was heard of, Gaius Horatius and Titus Menenius were already consuls.
Menenius adversus Tuscos victoria elatos confestim missus.
Menenius was immediately sent against the Etruscans, who were elated by their victory.
§2.51.2tum quoque male pugnatum est, et Ianiculum hostes occupavere; obsessaque urbs foret super bellum annona premente — transierant enim Etrusci Tiberim —, ni Horatius consul | ex Volscis esset revocatus.
Then too the battle went badly, and the enemy occupied the Janiculum; and the city would have been besieged, with scarcity of provisions pressing upon them in addition to the war — for the Etruscans had crossed the Tiber — if the consul Horatius had not | been recalled from the Volsci.
adeoque id bellum ipsis institit moenibus, ut primo pugnatum ad Spei sit aequo Marte, iterum ad portam Collinam.
And that war pressed so close to the very walls that at first they fought near the Temple of Hope with equal fortune, and a second time at the Colline Gate.
§2.51.3ibi quamquam parvo momento superior Romana res fuit, meliorem tamen militem recepto pristino animo in futura proelia id certamen fecit.
There, although the Roman advantage was of very little importance, yet that contest, by restoring their former spirit, made the soldiers better for future battles.
A. Verginius et Sp. Servilius consules fiunt.
Aulus Verginius and Spurius Servilius became consuls.
§2.51.4post acceptam proxima pugna cladem Veientes abstinuere acie; populationes erant, et velut ab arce Ianiculo passim in Romanum agrum impetus dabant;
After receiving the defeat in the last battle, the Veientines abstained from open field action; there were plunderings, and as if from the citadel of Janiculum, they made incursions everywhere into the Roman territory.
§2.51.5non usquam pecora tuta, non agrestes erant.
Nowhere were the cattle safe, nor were the husbandmen.
capti deinde eadem arte sunt, qua ceperant Fabios.
Then they were captured by the same art by which they had captured the Fabii.
secuti dedita opera passim ad inlecebras propulsa pecora praecipitavere in insidias.
Having followed on purpose the cattle driven out here and there as decoys, they rushed headlong into an ambush.
§2.51.6quo plures erant, maior caedes fuit.
The more numerous they were, the greater was the slaughter.
ex hac clade atrox ira maioris cladis causa atque initium fuit.
From this defeat, a fierce anger was the cause and beginning of a greater defeat.
traiecto enim nocte Tiberi castra Servili consulis adorti sunt oppugnare.
For, having crossed the Tiber by night, they attempted to storm the camp of the consul Servilius.
inde fusi magna caede in Ianiculum se aegre recepere.
Driven thence with great slaughter, they retreated with difficulty to the Janiculum.
§2.51.7confestim consul et ipse transit Tiberim, castra sub Ianiculo communit.
Immediately the consul himself also crossed the Tiber and fortified a camp below the Janiculum.
postero die luce orta nonnihil et hesterna felicitate pugnae ferox, magis tamen quod inopia frumenti quamvis in praecipitia, dum celeriora essent, agebat consilia, temere adverso Ianiculo ad castra hostium aciem erexit foediusque inde pulsus, §2.51.8quam pridie pepulerat, interventu collegae ipse exercitusque est servatus.
On the following day at dawn, somewhat emboldened by the yesterday's success of the battle, but more because the scarcity of grain drove him to plans, however headlong, provided they were speedier, he rashly marched his army up the Janiculum against the enemy's camp, and being repulsed from there more shamefully than he had repulsed the enemy the day before, he himself and his army were saved by the intervention of his colleague.
§2.51.9inter duas acies Etrusci, cum in vicem his atque illis terga darent, occidione occisi.
Between the two armies, the Etruscans, as they turned their backs in turn to these and to those, were slaughtered to utter destruction.
ita oppressum temeritate felici Veiens bellum.
Thus the Veientine war was suppressed by a happy rashness.