§22.11.1ita rebus divinis peractis tum de bello deque re publica dictator rettulit, quibus quotve legionibus victori hosti obviam eundum esse patres censerent.
These religious duties having been thus performed, the dictator then brought before the senate the state of the war and of the republic, asking with what or with how many legions the conscript fathers thought they ought to go to meet the victorious enemy.
§22.11.2decretum ut ab Cn. Servilio consule exercitum acciperet; scriberet praeterea ex civibus sociisque quantum equitum ac peditum videretur; cetera omnia ageret faceretque, ut e re publica duceret.
It was decreed that he should receive the army from the consul Gnaeus Servilius; that he should besides enlist from the citizens and allies as many horse and foot as should seem good; and that he should manage and do all other things as he should deem for the interest of the state.
§22.11.3Fabius duas legiones se adiecturum ad Servilianum exercitum dixit. iis per magistrum equitum scriptis Tibur diem ad conveniendum edixit;
Fabius said that he would add two legions to the army of Servilius.
§22.11.4edictoque proposito, ut, quibus oppida castellaque immunita essent, ut ii commigrarent in loca tuta, ex agris quoque demigrarent omnes regionis eius, §22.11.5qua iturus Hannibal esset, tectis prius incensis ac frugibus corruptis, ne cuius rei copia esset, ipse via Flaminia profectus obviam consuli exercituique cum ad Tiberim circa Ocriculum prospexisset agmen consulemque cum equitibus ad se progredientem, viatorem misit, qui consuli nuntiaret, ut sine lictoribus ad dictatorem veniret.
These having been enlisted through the master of the horse, he appointed a day for them to assemble at Tibur; and a proclamation having been issued, that those who had unfortified towns and castles should migrate into safe places, and that all the inhabitants of that region also should depart from the fields, having first burned their dwellings and destroyed their crops, so that there might be no supply of anything for him; he himself, setting out by the Flaminian Way to meet the consul and his army, when he had descried near Ocriculum on the Tiber the marching column and the consul advancing toward him with the cavalry, sent a messenger to tell the consul to come to the dictator without his lictors.
§22.11.6qui cum dicto paruisset congressusque eorum ingentem speciem dictaturae apud cives sociosque vetustate iam prope oblitos eius imperii fecisset, litterae ab urbe allatae sunt, naves onerarias commeatum ab Ostia in Hispaniam ad exercitum portantes a classe Punica circa portum Cosanum captas esse.
When he had obeyed this command, and their meeting had produced a great impression of the majesty of the dictatorship among the citizens and allies, who had now almost forgotten that authority through its long disuse, a letter was brought from the city, stating that the transport ships carrying provisions from Ostia to the army in Spain had been captured by the Carthaginian fleet near the port of Cosa.
§22.11.7itaque extemplo consul Ostiam proficisci iussus navibusque, quae ad urbem Romanam aut Ostiae essent, completis milite ac navalibus sociis persequi hostium classem ac litora Italiae tutari.
Therefore the consul was immediately ordered to set out for Ostia, and, having manned with soldiers and naval allies the ships which were at Rome or Ostia, to pursue the enemy's fleet and protect the coasts of Italy.
§22.11.8magna vis hominum conscripta Romae erat; libertini etiam, quibus liberi essent et aetas militaris, in verba iuraverant.
A great force of men was enlisted at Rome; even freedmen, who had children and were of military age, had taken the military oath.
§22.11.9ex hoc urbano exercitu qui minores quinque et triginta annis erant in navis inpositi, alii, ut urbi praesiderent, relicti.
Of this city army, those who were under thirty-five years of age were put on board the ships; the others were left to guard the city.