§39.2.1C. Flaminius consul, cum Friniatibus Liguribus in agro eorum pluribus proeliis secundis factis, in deditionem gentem accepit et arma ademit.
The consul C. Flaminius, having fought several successful battles with the Friniates Ligurians in their territory, accepted the surrender of the tribe and took away their arms.
§39.2.2ea quia non sincera fide tradebant, cum castigarentur, relictis vicis in montem Auginum profugerunt.
Because they were not delivering these with sincere good faith, when they were rebuked, they abandoned their villages and fled to Mount Auginus.
§39.2.3confestim secutus est consul.
The consul immediately followed.
ceterum effusi rursus, et pars maxima inermes, per invia et rupes deruptas praecipitantes fugerunt, qua sequi hostis non posset.
However, scattered again, and the greatest part unarmed, they fled headlong through trackless places and sheer cliffs, where the enemy could not follow.
ita trans Appenninum abierunt.
Thus they departed across the Apennines.
qui castris se tenuerant, circumsessi et expugnati sunt.
Those who had kept themselves in the camp were besieged and captured.
§39.2.4inde trans Appenninum ductae legiones.
From there, the legions were led across the Apennines.
ibi montis quem ceperant altitudine paulisper se tutati, mox in deditionem concesserunt.
There, having protected themselves for a short time by the height of the mountain they had occupied, they soon surrendered.
tum conquisita cum intentiore cura arma, et omnia adempta.
Then the arms were searched for with more intense care, and all were taken away.
translatum deinde ad Apuanos Ligures bellum, §39.2.5qui in agrum Pisanum Bononiensemque ita incursaverant, ut coli non possent.
The war was then transferred to the Apuan Ligurians, who had raided the territory of Pisa and Bononia in such a way that it could not be cultivated.
§39.2.6his quoque perdomitis consul pacem dedit finitimis.
Having thoroughly subdued these also, the consul gave peace to the neighbors.
et quia a bello quieta ut esset provincia effecerat, ne in otio militem haberet, viam a Bononia perduxit Arretium.
And because he had brought it about that the province should be quiet from war, so that he might not keep the soldier in idleness, he constructed a road from Bononia to Arretium.
§39.2.7M. Aemilius alter consul agros Ligurum vicosque, qui in campis aut vallibus erant, ipsis montes duos Ballistam Suismontiumque tenentibus, deussit depopulatusque est.
M. Aemilius, the other consul, burned and ravaged the fields and villages of the Ligurians which were in the plains or valleys, while they themselves held the two mountains, Ballista and Suismontium.
§39.2.8deinde eos, qui in montibus erant, adortus primo levibus proeliis fatigavit, postremo coactos in aciem descendere iusto proelio devicit, in quo et aedem Dianae vovit.
Then, having attacked those who were in the mountains, he first exhausted them with light battles, and finally, having forced them to descend into line of battle, he defeated them in a regular battle, in which he also vowed a temple to Diana.
§39.2.9subactis cis Appenninum omnibus, tum transmontanos adortus — in his et Friniates Ligures erant, quos non adierat C. Flaminius — omnes Aemilius subegit armaque ademit et de montibus in campos multitudinem deduxit.
Having subdued all on this side of the Apennines, he then attacked those beyond the mountains—among these were also the Friniates Ligurians, whom C. Flaminius had not approached—Aemilius subdued them all, took away their arms, and led the multitude down from the mountains into the plains.
§39.2.10pacatis Liguribus exercitum in agrum Gallicum duxit, viamque a Placentia, ut Flaminiae committeret, Ariminum perduxit.
Having pacified the Ligurians, he led his army into the Gallic territory, and constructed a road from Placentia to Ariminum, so as to connect it with the Flaminian Way.
§39.2.11proelio ultimo, quo cum Liguribus signis collatis conflixit, aedem Iunoni reginae vovit.
In the last battle, in which he fought with the Ligurians in a pitched battle, he vowed a temple to Juno Regina.
haec in Liguribus eo anno gesta.
These were the things done among the Ligurians in that year.