§3.5.1multi per eos dies motus multique impetus hinc atque illinc facti, quia superante multitudine hostes carpere multifariam viris Romanas, ut non suffecturas ad omnia, adgressi sunt;
During those days, many movements and many attacks were made on both sides, because the enemy, prevailing in numbers, attempted to wear down the Roman forces in many places, as if they would not suffice for everything.
§3.5.2simul castra oppugnabantur, simul pars exercitus ad populandum agrum Romanum missa urbemque ipsam, si qua fortuna daret, temptandam.
At the same time, the camp was being attacked, and at the same time, a part of the army was sent to plunder the Roman territory and to test the city itself, if any fortune should offer.
§3.5.3L. Valerius ad praesidium urbis relictus, consul Postumius ad arcendas populationes finium missus.
Lucius Valerius was left for the protection of the city, and the consul Postumius was sent to ward off the plundering of the borders.
nihil remissum ab ulla parte curae aut laboris;
Nothing of care or labor was relaxed on any part.
§3.5.4vigiliae in urbe, stationes ante portas praesidiaque in muris disposita et, quod necesse erat in tanto tumultu, iustitium per aliquot dies servatum.
Watches were disposed in the city, outposts before the gates, and guards on the walls; and, as was necessary in so great a tumult, a suspension of public business was observed for several days.
§3.5.5interim in castris Furius consul cum primo quietus obsidionem passus esset, in incautum hostem decumana porta erupit et, cum persequi posset, metu substitit, ne qua ex parte altera in castra vis fieret.
Meanwhile, in the camp, the consul Furius, although at first he had quietly endured the siege, broke out through the decuman gate upon the unsuspecting enemy; and, though he was able to pursue them, he stopped through fear lest an attack should be made on the camp from some other part.
Furium legatum — §3.5.6frater idem consulis erat — longius extulit cursus; nec suos ille redeuntes persequendi studio neque hostium ab tergo incursum vidit.
The legate Furius— who was also the brother of the consul—was carried too far by his charge; in his eagerness to pursue, he saw neither his own men returning nor the enemy's attack from behind.
ita exclusus multis saepe frustra conatibus captis, ut viam sibi ad castra faceret, acriter dimicans cecidit, et consul nuntio circumventi fratris conversus ad pugnam,
Thus cut off, after making many attempts in vain to force a way for himself to the camp, fighting fiercely, he fell.
§3.5.7dum se temere magis quam satis caute in mediam dimicationem infert, vulnere accepto aegre ab circumstantibus ereptus et suorum animos turbavit et ferociores hostes fecit;
And the consul, turning to the fight upon the news of his brother being surrounded, while he threw himself into the midst of the conflict more rashly than with sufficient caution, received a wound, and being with difficulty rescued by those around him, both demoralized his own men and made the enemy more fierce.
§3.5.8qui caede legati et consulis vulnere accensi nulla deinde vi sustineri potuere, cum conpulsi in castra Romani rursus obsiderentur nec spe nec viribus pares, venissetque in periculum summa rerum, ni T. Quinctius peregrinis copiis, Latino Hernicoque exercitu, subvenisset.
The enemy, inflamed by the slaughter of the legate and the wound of the consul, could not thenceforth be sustained by any force, while the Romans, driven back into their camp, were besieged again, unequal both in hope and in strength; and the state of affairs would have come into extreme danger, had not Titus Quinctius come to the rescue with foreign forces, the Latin and Hernician army.
§3.5.9is intentos in castra Romana Aequos legatique caput ferociter ostentantes ab tergo adortus, simul ad signum a se procul editum ex castris eruptione facta, magnam vim hostium circumvenit.
He attacked from behind the Aequi, who were intent upon the Roman camp and fiercely displaying the head of the legate, and at the same time, an eruption being made from the camp at a signal given by him from afar, he surrounded a great force of the enemy.
minor caedis, §3.5.10fuga effusior Aequorum in agro fuit Romano; in quos palatos praedam agentes Postumius aliquot locis, quibus opportuna inposuerat praesidia, impetum dedit.
The slaughter was smaller, but the flight of the Aequi in the Roman territory was more scattered; upon whom, as they straggled carrying their plunder, Postumius made an attack in several places where he had stationed opportune guards.
hi vagi dissipato agmine fugientes in Quinctium victorem cum saucio consule revertentem incidere.
These vagrant fugitives, fleeing with their line of march broken, fell in with the victorious Quinctius returning with the wounded consul.
§3.5.11tum consularis exercitus egregia pugna consulis vulnus, legati et cohortium ultus est caedem.
Then the consular army, in an outstanding battle, avenged the wound of the consul and the slaughter of the legate and the cohorts.
magnae clades ultro citroque illis diebus et inlatae et acceptae.
Great disasters were both inflicted and received on both sides during those days.
§3.5.12difficile ad fidem est in tam antiqua re, quot pugnaverint ceciderintve, exacto adfirmare numero; audet tamen Antias Valerius concipere summas: §3.5.13Romanorum cecidisse in Hernico agro quinque milia octingentos, ex praedatoribus Aequorum, qui populabundi in finibus Romanis vagabantur, ab A. Postumio consule duo milia et quadringentos caesos; ceteram multitudinem praedam agentem, quae inciderit in Quinctium, nequaquam pari defunctam esse caede; interfecta inde quattuor milia et exequendo subtiliter numerum ducentos ait et triginta.
In a matter so ancient, it is difficult to affirm with credit the exact number of those who fought or fell; yet Valerius Antias dares to formulate the totals: that five thousand eight hundred of the Romans fell in the Hernician territory; that of the plunderers of the Aequi, who were wandering and pillaging in the Roman borders, two thousand four hundred were slain by the consul Aulus Postumius; and that the rest of the multitude carrying plunder, which fell in with Quinctius, by no means got off with an equal slaughter; he says that four thousand two hundred and thirty were killed there, executing the number with precision.
ut Romam reditum est, iustitium remissum est.
When they returned to Rome, the suspension of public business was ended.
§3.5.14caelum visum est ardere plurimo igni, portentaque alia aut obversata oculis aut vanas exterritis ostentavere species.
The sky was seen to burn with much fire, and other portents either appeared before men's eyes or presented empty phantoms to the terrified.
his avertendis terroribus in triduum feriae indictae, per quas omnia delubra pacem deum exposcentium virorum mulierumque turba inplebantur.
To avert these terrors, a festival of three days was declared, during which all the shrines were filled with a crowd of men and women imploring the peace of the gods.
§3.5.15cohortes inde Latinae Hernicaeque ab senatu gratiis ob inpigram militiam actis remissae domos.
Then the Latin and Hernician cohorts, after thanks were given by the senate for their active service, were sent home.
Antiates mille milites, quia serum auxilium post proelium venerant, prope cum ignominia dimissi.
A thousand soldiers of Antium, because they had come as a late aid after the battle, were dismissed almost with ignominy.