§22.36.1exercitus quoque multiplicati sunt; quantae autem copiae peditum equitumque additae sint, adeo et numero et genere copiarum variant auctores, ut vix quicquam satis certum adfirmare ausus sim.
The armies were also increased; but as to how many forces of infantry and cavalry were added, the authors differ so much both in the number and in the kind of forces that I should hardly venture to affirm anything as sufficiently certain.
§22.36.2decem milia novorum militum alii scripta in supplementum, alii novas quattuor legiones, ut octo legionibus rem gererent; §22.36.3numero quoque peditum equitumque legiones auctas milibus peditum et centenis equitibus in singulas adiectis, ut quina milia peditum, treceni equites essent, socii duplicem numerum equitum darent, §22.36.4peditis aequarent, septemque et octoginta milia armatorum et ducentos in castris Romanis fuisse, cum pugnatum ad Cannas est, quidam auctores sunt.
Some write that ten thousand new soldiers were enlisted as a reinforcement, others that four new legions were raised, so that they might conduct operations with eight legions; and that the legions were also increased in the number of infantry and cavalry by adding a thousand infantry and a hundred cavalry to each, so that there were five thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry in each, and the allies gave double the number of cavalry, and equaled them in infantry, and some authors are authority for the statement that there were eighty-seven thousand two hundred armed men in the Roman camp when the battle was fought at Cannae.
§22.36.5illud haudquaquam discrepat, maiore conatu atque impetu rem actam quam prioribus annis, quia spem posse vinci hostem dictator praebuerat.
About this there is no disagreement: that the business was conducted with greater effort and energy than in former years, because the dictator had offered hope that the enemy could be conquered.
§22.36.6ceterum priusquam signa ab urbe novae legiones moverent, decemviri libros adire atque inspicere iussi; propter territos vulgo homines novis prodigiis.
However, before the new legions moved their standards from the city, the decemviri were ordered to go to and consult the books, because of the people being generally terrified by new prodigies.
§22.36.7nam et Romae in Aventino et Ariciae nuntiatum erat sub idem tempus lapidibus pluvisse, et multo cruore signa in Sabinis sudasse, et Caeretes aquas fonte calido gelidas manasse; §22.36.8id quidem etiam, quod saepius acciderat magis terrebat; et in via fornicata, quae ad Campum erat, aliquot homines de caelo tacti exanimatique fuerant.
For it had been reported about the same time, both at Rome on the Aventine and at Aricia, that it had rained stones; and that among the Sabines the standards had sweated much blood, and that at Caere cold water had flowed from a hot spring; indeed, this too, which had occurred more frequently, terrified them even more: that in the vaulted way which led to the Campus, several men had been struck by lightning from heaven and killed.
§22.36.9ea prodigia ex libris procurata.
Those prodigies were expiated according to the books.
legati a Paesto pateras aureas Romam attulerunt.
Envoys from Paestum brought golden bowls to Rome.
iis sicut Neapolitanis gratiae actae, aurum non acceptum.
Thanks were returned to them, as to the Neapolitans, but the gold was not accepted.