§4.10.1Volscus imperator, qui ad eam diem non commeatu praeparato, sed ex populatione agrorum rapto in diem frumento aluisset militem, postquam saeptus vallo repente inops omnium rerum erat, ad conloquium consule evocato, si solvendae obsidionis causa venerit Romanus, abducturum se inde Volscos ait.
The Volscian commander, who up to that day had nourished his soldiers not with prepared provisions, but with corn seized day by day from the plundering of the fields, after he was enclosed by the rampart and suddenly in want of all things, having summoned the consul to a conference, said that if the Roman had come for the purpose of raising the siege, he would withdraw the Volscians from there.
§4.10.2adversus ea consul victis condiciones accipiendas esse, non ferendas respondit, neque, ut venerint ad oppugnandos socios populi Romani suo arbitrio, ita abituros Volscos esse.
To this the consul replied that the vanquished must accept conditions, not dictate them, and that the Volscians would not depart in the same manner as they had come to attack the allies of the Roman people by their own choice.
§4.10.3dedi imperatorem, arma poni iubet, fatentes victos se esse imperio parere; aliter tam abeuntibus quam manentibus se hostem infestum victoriam potius ex Volscis quam pacem infidam Romam relaturum.
He ordered that their commander be surrendered, their arms laid down, and that, admitting they were vanquished, they obey his command; otherwise, whether they departed or remained, he would be a relentless enemy to them, and would bring back to Rome a victory over the Volscians rather than a treacherous peace.
§4.10.4Volsci exiguam spem in armis alia undique abscisa cum temptassent, praeter cetera adversa loco quoque iniquo ad pugnam congressi, iniquiore ad fugam, cum ab omni parte caederentur, ad preces a certamine versi dedito imperatore traditisque armis sub iugum missi cum singulis vestimentis ignominiae cladisque pleni dimittuntur;
The Volscians, having tried their slender hope in arms since all other hopes were cut off on every side, encountered battle in a place unfavorable for fighting in addition to their other adversities, and even more unfavorable for flight; when they were being cut down from every side, turning from battle to entreaties, after their commander was surrendered and their arms delivered up, they were sent under the yoke and dismissed with only a single garment each, full of ignominy and disaster.
§4.10.5et cum haud procul urbe Tusculo consedissent, vetere Tusculanorum odio inermes oppressi dederunt poenas vix nuntiis caedis relictis.
And when they had halted not far from the city of Tusculum, they were overwhelmed while unarmed by the ancient hatred of the Tusculans, and paid the penalty, with scarcely any messengers of the slaughter left.
§4.10.6Romanus Ardeae turbatas seditione res principibus eius motus securi percussis bonisque eorum in publicum Ardeatium redactis composuit; demptamque iniuriam iudicii tanto beneficio populi Romani Ardeates credebant; senatui superesse aliquid ad delendum publicae avaritiae monumentum videbatur.
The Roman settled the affairs at Ardea, which had been thrown into confusion by sedition, by executing the leaders of that movement with the axe and confiscating their goods to the public treasury of the Ardeates; and the Ardeates believed that the injustice of the judgment had been wiped out by so great a benefit of the Roman people, while to the senate there seemed to remain something yet to be done to erase the monument of public greed.
§4.10.7consul triumphans in urbem redit Cluilio duce Volscorum ante currum ducto praelatisque spoliis, quibus dearmatum exercitum hostium sub iugum miserat.
The consul returned in triumph into the city, with Cluilius, the commander of the Volscians, led before his chariot, and the spoils displayed, with which he had sent the disarmed army of the enemy under the yoke.
§4.10.8Aequavit, quod haud facile est, Quinctius consul togatus armati gloriam collegae, quia concordiae pacisque domesticae curam iura infimis summisque moderando ita tenuit, ut eum et patres severum consulem et plebs satis comem crediderint.
Quinctius, as a consul in the toga, equaled the glory of his armed colleague—which is no easy thing—because he maintained such care for domestic harmony and peace by administering the laws moderately for the lowest and the highest alike, that the patricians believed him to be a strict consul, and the plebeians a sufficiently affable one.
§4.10.9et adversus tribunos auctoritate plura quam certamine tenuit; quinque consulatus eodem tenore gesti vitaque omnis consulariter acta verendum paene ipsum magis quam honorem faciebant.
And against the tribunes, he held more through authority than through conflict; five consulships conducted in the same tenor, and his whole life lived in a consular manner, made the man himself almost more respected than his office.
eo tribunorum militarium nulla mentio his consulibus fuit.
Therefore, during these consuls, there was no mention of military tribunes.