§31.22.1magna victoria laetaque Romae fuit.
The victory was great and joyful at Rome.
§31.22.2litteris adlatis supplicatio in triduum decreta est.
When the letter was brought, a thanksgiving for three days was decreed.
Romanorum sociorumque ad duo milia eo proelio ceciderunt, plurimi dextrae alae, in quam primo impetu vis hostium ingens illata est.
About two thousand of the Romans and allies fell in that battle, most of them from the right wing, upon which the huge force of the enemy had been directed in the first assault.
§31.22.3quamquam per praetorem prope debellatum erat, consul quoque C. Aurelius, perfectis quae Romae agenda fuerant, profectus in Galliam victorem exercitum a praetore accepit.
Although the war had been almost finished by the praetor, the consul Gaius Aurelius also, having completed what had had to be done at Rome, set out for Gaul and received the victorious army from the praetor.
§31.22.4consul alter cum autumno ferme exacto in provinciam venisset, circa Apolloniam hibernabat.
When the other consul had arrived in his province, with autumn being almost spent, he was wintering around Apollonia.
§31.22.5ab classe, quae Corcyrae subducta erat, C. Claudius triremesque Romanae, sicut ante dictum est, Athenas missae cum Piraeum pervenissent, despondentibus iam animos sociis spem ingentem attulerant.
Gaius Claudius and the Roman triremes, which, as has been said before, had been sent to Athens from the fleet that had been hauled ashore at Corcyra, when they had arrived at the Piraeus, brought great hope to the allies who were already losing heart.
§31.22.6nam et terrestres ab Corintho quae per Megara incursiones in agros fieri solitae erant non fiebant, §31.22.7et praedonum a Chalcide naves, quae non mare solum infestum, sed etiam omnis maritumos agros Atheniensibus fecerant, non modo Sunium superare sed ne extra fretum Euripi quidem committere aperto mari se audebant.
For both the land incursions from Corinth, which used to be made through Megara into the fields, were not being made, and the ships of the pirates from Chalcis, which had made not only the sea dangerous but also all the coastal lands to the Athenians, dared not only not to double Cape Sunium, but not even to venture themselves on the open sea outside the strait of Euripus.
§31.22.8supervenerunt his tres Rhodiae quadriremes, et erant Atticae tres apertae naves, ad tuendos maritimos agros comparatae.
To these there added three Rhodian quadriremes, and there were three Attic open ships, prepared for defending the coastal lands.
hac classe si urbs agrique Atheniensium defenderentur, satis in praesentia existimanti Claudio esse maioris etiam rei fortuna oblata est.
While Claudius thought that it was enough for the present if the city and lands of the Athenians were defended by this fleet, an opportunity of an even greater enterprise was presented to him.