§33.36.1cum haec in Graecia Macedoniaque et Asia gererentur, Etruriam infestam prope coniuratio servorum fecit.
While these things were being done in Greece, Macedonia, and Asia, a conspiracy of slaves made Etruria almost hostile.
§33.36.2ad quaerendam opprimendamque eam M’. Acilius Glabrio praetor, cui inter civis peregrinosque iurisdictio obtigerat, cum una ex duabus legione urbana est missus, alios * * alios iam congregatos pugnando vicit; §33.36.3ex his multi occisi, multi capti; alios verberatos crucibus adfixit, qui principes coniurationis fuerant, alios dominis restituit.
To investigate and suppress it, the praetor Manius Acilius Glabrio, to whom the jurisdiction between citizens and foreigners had fallen, was sent with one of the two urban legions; some * * others already assembled he defeated in battle; of these many were killed, many captured; some, who had been the leaders of the conspiracy, he scourged and crucified, others he restored to their masters.
§33.36.4consules in provincias profecti sunt.
The consuls set out for their provinces.
Marcellum Boiorum ingressum finis fatigato per diem totum milite via facienda castra in tumulo quodam ponentem Corolamus quidam, regulus Boiorum, cum magna manu adortus ad tria milia hominum occidit; §33.36.5et illustres viri aliquot in illo tumultuario proelio ceciderunt inter quos praefecti socium T. Sempronius Gracchus et M. Iunius Silanus et tribuni militum de legione secunda M. Ogulnius et P. Claudius.
As Marcellus, having entered the territory of the Boii, was pitching camp on a certain hill, with his soldiers exhausted by a whole day's work in making a road, a certain Corolamus, a petty king of the Boii, having attacked him with a large force, killed about three thousand men; and several illustrious men fell in that disorderly battle, among whom were the prefects of the allies Titus Sempronius Gracchus and Marcus Iunius Silanus, and the military tribunes of the second legion Marcus Ogulnius and Publius Claudius.
§33.36.6castra tamen ab Romanis inpigre permunita retentaque, cum hostes prospera pugna elati nequiquam oppugnassent.
Nevertheless, the camp was promptly fortified and held by the Romans, although the enemy, elated by their successful battle, had attacked it in vain.
§33.36.7stativis deinde iisdem per dies aliquot sese tenuit, dum et saucios curaret et a tanto terrore animos militum reficeret.
He then kept himself in the same permanent camp for several days, until he could both care for the wounded and recruit the spirits of the soldiers from so great a terror.
§33.36.8Boi, ut est gens minime ad morae taedium ferendum patiens, in castella sua vicosque passim dilapsi sunt.
The Boii, being a nation least patient in enduring the tedium of delay, dispersed here and there into their forts and villages.
§33.36.9Marcellus Pado confestim traiecto in agrum Comensem, ubi Insubres Comensibus ad arma excitis castra habebant, legiones ducit.
Marcellus, having immediately crossed the Po, led his legions into the territory of Comum, where the Insubres, having excited the Comenses to arms, had their camp.
Galli, feroces Boiorum ante dies paucos pugna, in ipso itinere proelium committunt; et primo adeo acriter invaserunt, §33.36.10ut antesignanos inpulerint.
The Gauls, fierce from their battle with the Boii a few days before, joined battle on the march itself; and at first they attacked so fiercely, that they pushed back the front-rank men.
quod ubi Marcellus animadvertit, veritus, ne moti semel pellerentur, cohortem Marsorum cum opposuisset, equitum Latinorum omnis turmas in hostem emisit.
When Marcellus noticed this, fearing lest, once moved, they might be driven back, he opposed a cohort of the Marsi, and sent out all the squadrons of Latin cavalry against the enemy.
§33.36.11quorum cum primus secundusque impetus rettudisset inferentem se ferociter hostem, confirmata et reliqua acies Romana restitit primo, deinde signa acriter intulit.
When their first and second charges had repulsed the enemy who was fiercely pressing forward, the rest of the Roman line, also encouraged, stood its ground at first, and then vigorously advanced.
§33.36.12nec ultra sustinuere certamen Galli, quin terga verterent atque effuse fugerent.
Nor did the Gauls sustain the fight any longer, but turned their backs and fled in headlong flight.
§33.36.13in eo proelio supra quadraginta milia hominum caesa Valerius Antias scribit, octoginta septem signa militaria capta et carpenta septingenta triginta duo et aureos torques multos, ex quibus unum magni ponderis Claudius in Capitolio Iovi donum in aede positum scribit.
In that battle, Valerius Antias writes that over forty thousand men were slain, eighty-seven military standards taken, seven hundred and thirty-two carriages, and many golden torques, one of great weight among which Claudius writes was placed as a gift to Jupiter in his temple on the Capitol.
§33.36.14castra eo die Gallorum expugnata direptaque, et Comum oppidum post dies paucos captum.
On that day the camp of the Gauls was taken and plundered, and the town of Comum was captured a few days later.
castella inde duodetriginta ad consulem defecerunt.
After that, twenty-eight forts surrendered to the consul.
§33.36.15id quoque inter scriptores ambigitur, utrum in Boios prius an Insubres consul exercitum duxerit adversamque prospera pugna oblitteraverit, an victoria ad Comum parta deformata clade in Bois accepta sit.
This also is disputed among writers: whether the consul led his army first against the Boii and effaced a defeat by a successful battle, or whether the victory won at Comum was marred by the disaster sustained among the Boii.