§40.41.1consules ambo in Ligures exercitus induxerunt diversis partibus.
Both consuls led their armies into the territory of the Ligurians from different directions.
§40.41.2Postumius prima et tertia legione Ballistam Letumque montes obsedit, et premendo praesidiis angustos saltus eorum commeatus interclusit, inopiaque omnium rerum eos perdomuit.
Postumius, with the first and third legions, besieged Mount Ballista and Mount Letus, and by pressing the narrow passes with garrisons, he cut off their supplies and subdued them through the lack of all provisions.
§40.41.3Fulvius secunda et quarta legione adortus a Pisis Apuanos Ligures, qui eorum circa Macram fluvium incolebant, in deditionem acceptos, ad septem milia hominum, in naves impositos praeter oram Etrusci maris Neapolim transmisit.
Fulvius, having attacked from Pisae with the second and fourth legions the Apuani Ligurians, who lived among them around the river Macra, received them into surrender to the number of about seven thousand men, placed them on board ships, and sent them past the coast of the Etruscan Sea to Neapolis.
§40.41.4inde in Samnium traducti, agerque iis inter populares datus est.
Thence they were transferred into Samnium, and land was given to them among their fellow countrymen.
§40.41.5montanorum Ligurum ab A. Postumio vineae caesae frumentaque deusta, done cladibus omnibus belli coacti in deditionem venerunt armaque tradiderunt.
The vineyards of the mountain Ligurians were cut down and their crops burned by Aulus Postumius, until, forced by all the disasters of the war, they came into surrender and surrendered their arms.
§40.41.6navibus inde Postumius ad visendam oram Ingaunorum Intemeliorumque Ligurum processit.
Thence Postumius proceeded with ships to inspect the coast of the Ingauni and Intemelii Ligurians.
§40.41.7priusquam hi consules venirent ad exercitum, qui Pisas indictus erat, praeerat A. Postumius.
Before these consuls came to the army, which had been summoned to Pisae, Aulus Postumius was in command.
§40.41.8frater Q. Fulvii M. Fulvius Nobilior — secundae legionis tribunus militum is erat — mensibus suis dimisit legionem, iureiurando adactis centurionibus aes in aerarium ad quaestores esse delaturos.
Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, the brother of Quintus Fulvius — he was a military tribune of the second legion — in his own months of command disbanded the legion, having bound the centurions by oath that they would deliver the money to the quaestors in the treasury.
§40.41.9hoc ubi Placentiam — nam eo forte erat profectus — Aulo nuntiatum est, cum equitibus expeditis secutus dimissos, quos eorum potuit adsequi, reduxit castigatos Pisas; de ceteris consulem certiorem fecit.
When this was announced to Aulus at Placentia — for he had happened to set out thither — he pursued the disbanded men with light-armed cavalry, and brought back to Pisae, after having punished them, those of them whom he was able to overtake; concerning the rest, he informed the consul.
§40.41.10eo referente senatus consultum factum est, ut M. Fulvius in Hispaniam relegaretur ultra novam Carthaginem; litteraeque ei datae sunt a consule ad P. Manlium in Hispaniam ulteriorem deferendae: §40.41.11milites iussi ad signa redire.
Upon his referral, a decree of the senate was passed that Marcus Fulvius should be banished into Spain beyond New Carthage; and letters were given to him by the consul to be carried to Publius Manlius in Farther Spain: the soldiers were ordered to return to their standards.
ignominiae causa uti semestre stipendium in eum annum esset ei legioni, decretum: qui miles ad exercitum non redisset, eum ipsum bonaque eius vendere consul iussus.
For the sake of disgrace, it was decreed that the pay for that legion for that year should be for six months; the consul was ordered to sell the soldier himself and his property, who had not returned to the army.