§41.10.1dum haec Romae geruntur, M. Iunius et A. Manlius, qui priore anno consules fuerant, cum Aquileiae hibernassent, principio veris in finis Histrorum exercitum introducerunt; §41.10.2ubi cum effuse popularentur, dolor magis et indignatio diripi res suas cernentis Histros, quam certa spes, satis sibi virium adversus duos exercitus esse, excivit.
While these things were going on at Rome, Marcus Junius and Aulus Manlius, who had been consuls in the previous year, having wintered at Aquileia, led their army into the territory of the Histrians at the beginning of spring; where, while they were plundering far and wide, the Histrians were aroused, not so much by a reliable hope that they had sufficient strength against two armies, as by the pain and indignation of seeing their own property being plundered.
§41.10.3concursu ex omnibus populis iuventutis facto repentinus et tumultuarius exercitus acrius primo impetu quam perseverantius pugnavit.
A gathering of the youth having been made from all the tribes, the sudden and tumultuous army fought more fiercely in the first onset than with perseverance.
§41.10.4ad quattuor milia eorum in acie caesa; ceteri omisso bello in civitates passim diffugerunt.
Up to four thousand of them were slain in the battle-line; the rest, abandoning the war, fled in all directions to their states.
inde legatos primum ad pacem petendam in castra Romana, deinde obsides imperatos miserunt.
Then they sent envoys first to the Roman camp to seek peace, and then they sent the hostages that were demanded.
§41.10.5haec cum Romae cognita litteris proconsulum essent, C. Claudius consul veritus, ne forte eae res provinciam et exercitum sibi adimerent, non votis nuncupatis, non paludatis lictoribus, uno omnium certiore facto collega, nocte profectus, praeceps in provinciam abiit; ubi inconsultius quam venerat se gessit.
When these events were made known at Rome by the letters of the proconsuls, the consul Gaius Claudius, fearing lest by chance these matters should deprive him of his province and army, without having pronounced his vows, and without lictors dressed in the general's cloak, having informed only one of his colleagues of all, set out by night and went headlong into his province; where he behaved more indiscreetly than he had come.
§41.10.6nam cum contione advocata fugam e castris A. Manlio adversis auribus militum, quippe qui primi ipsi fugissent, obiectasset et ingessisset probra M. Iunio, quod se dedecoris socium collegae fecisset, ad extremum utrumque decedere provincia iussit.
For, having called an assembly, he reproached Aulus Manlius with the flight from the camp to the unfavorable ears of the soldiers, since they themselves had been the first to flee, and heaped insults on Marcus Junius because he had made himself his colleague's partner in disgrace, and at last ordered both to depart from the province.
§41.10.7ad quod cum illi tum consulis imperio dicto audientes futuros esse dicerent, cum is more maiorum, secundum vota in Capitolio nuncupata, lictoribus paludatis profectus ab urbe esset, §41.10.8furens ira vocatum, qui pro quaestore Manli erat, catenas poposcit, vinctos se Iunium Manliumque minitans Romam missurum.
ad To this when they said that they would be obedient to the consul's command only when he, according to the custom of the ancestors, having pronounced his vows on the Capitol, had set out from the city with lictors dressed in the general's cloak, furious with anger, he called the man who was acting as Manlius' quaestor and demanded chains, threatening that he would send Junius and Manlius to Rome bound.
§41.10.9ab eo quoque spretum consulis imperium est; et circumfusus exercitus, favens imperatorum causae et consuli infestus, animos ad non parendum addebat.
By him also the consul's command was despised; and the surrounding army, favoring the cause of their generals and hostile to the consul, added courage to their refusal to obey.
§41.10.10postremo fatigatus consul et contumeliis singulorum et multitudinis — nam insuper inridebant — ludibriis, nave eadem, qua venerat, Aquileiam redit.
At last the consul, exhausted both by the insults of individuals and by the mockery of the multitude—for they were laughing at him in addition—returned to Aquileia in the same ship in which he had come.
§41.10.11inde collegae scripsit, ut militum novorum ei parti, quae scripta in Histriam provinciam esset, ediceret, Aquileiam ut conveniret, ne quid se Romae teneret, quo minus votis nuncupatis paludatus ab urbe exiret.
From there he wrote to his colleague to issue an edict to that part of the new soldiers who had been enrolled for the province of Istria, to assemble at Aquileia, so that nothing might detain him at Rome from going out of the city, having pronounced his vows, dressed in the general's cloak.
§41.10.12haec a collega obsequenter facta, brevisque dies ad conveniendum edicta est.
These instructions were obediently carried out by his colleague, and a short day for assembling was appointed.
Claudius prope consecutus est litteras suas.
Claudius arrived almost immediately after his letter.
§41.10.13contione adveniens de Manlio et Iunio habita, non ultra triduum moratus Romae, paludatis lictoribus votisque in Capitolio nuncupatis, in provinciam aeque ac prius praecipiti celeritate abit.
On his arrival, having held an assembly concerning Manlius and Junius, and staying no more than three days at Rome, with lictors dressed in the general's cloak and vows pronounced on the Capitol, he departed for his province with the same headlong speed as before.