§4.47.1transierat ex re bene gesta superbia neglegentiaque ad Aequos, quae in Romanis ducibus fuerat. §4.47.2itaque primo statim proelio cum dictator equitatu inmisso antesignanos hostium turbasset, legionum inde signa inferri propere iussit signiferumque ex suis unum cunctantem occidit. §4.47.3tantus ardor ad dimicandum fuit, ut impetum Aequi non tulerint, victique acie cum fuga effusa petissent castra, brevior tempore et certamine minor castrorum oppugnatio fuit, §4.47.4quam proelium fuerat.
Pride and negligence, which had been in the Roman generals, had passed over to the Aequi as a result of their success. Therefore, in the very first battle, when the dictator, having sent in the cavalry, had thrown the enemy's vanguard into confusion, he immediately ordered the standards of the legions to be advanced, and killed one of his own standard-bearers who was hesitating. Such was the ardor for fighting that the Aequi did not withstand the charge, and when, defeated in the line of battle, they had sought their camp in headlong flight, the storming of the camp was shorter in time and smaller in conflict than the battle had been.
captis direptisque castris cum praedam dictator militi concessisset secutique fugientem ex castris hostem equites renuntiassent omnes Labicanos, magnam partem Aequorum Labicos confugisse, §4.47.5postero die ad Labicos ductus exercitus oppidumque corona circumdata scalis captum ac direptum est.
The camp having been captured and plundered, when the dictator had granted the booty to the soldiers, and the cavalry, having pursued the enemy fleeing from the camp, had reported that all the Labicans and a large part of the Aequi had fled to Labici, on the following day the army was led to Labici, and the town, surrounded by a ring of troops, was captured by escalade and plundered.
dictator exercitu victore Romam reducto die octavo, §4.47.6quam creatus erat, magistratu se abdicavit; et opportune senatus, priusquam ab tribunis plebi agrariae seditiones mentione inlata de agro Labicano dividendo fierent, censuit frequens coloniam Labicos deducendam.
The dictator, having led his victorious army back to Rome, on the eighth day after he had been appointed, resigned his office; and opportunely the senate, before agrarian seditions could be raised by the tribunes of the plebs by introducing the mention of dividing the Labican land, decreed in a full house that a colony should be led to Labici.
coloni ab urbe mille §4.47.7et quingenti missi bina iugera acceperunt.
One thousand five hundred colonists sent from the city received two iugera each.
Captis Labicis ac deinde tribunis militum consulari potestate Agrippa Menenio Lanato et C. Servilio Structo et P. Lucretio Tricipitino, §4.47.8iterum omnibus his, et Sp. Rutilio Crasso et insequente anno A. Sempronio Atratino tertium et duobus iterum M. Papirio Mugillano et Sp. Nautio Rutilo biennium tranquillae externae res, discordia domi ex agrariis legibus fuit.
After the capture of Labici, and then when Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, Caius Servilius Structus, and Publius Lucretius Tricipitinus had become military tribunes with consular power, all of these for the second time, and Spurius Rutilius Crassus, and in the following year Aulus Sempronius Atratinus for the third time, and again two others, Marcus Papirius Mugillanus and Spurius Nautius Rutilus for the second time, for a period of two years things were peaceful abroad, while there was discord at home arising from the agrarian laws.