§5.23.1Romam ut nuntiatum est Veios captos, quamquam et prodigia procurata fuerant et vatum responsa et Pythicae sortes notae et, quantum humanis adiuvari consiliis potuerat res, ducem M. Furium maximum imperatorum omnium legerant, §5.23.2tamen, quia tot annis varie ibi bellatum erat multaeque clades acceptae, velut ex insperato inmensum gaudium fuit et, priusquam senatus decerneret, §5.23.3plena omnia templa Romanarum matrum grates dis agentium erant.
When it was announced at Rome that Veii had been captured, although both prodigies had been expiated and the responses of the prophets and the Pythian oracles were known, and as far as the matter could be aided by human counsels, they had chosen Marcus Furius, the greatest of all generals, as leader, nevertheless, because they had fought there for so many years with varying fortune and many disasters had been sustained, there was immense joy as if from something unhoped for, and, before the senate could pass a decree, all the temples were full of Roman mothers offering thanks to the gods.
senatus in quadriduum, quot dierum nullo ante bello, supplicationes decernit.
The senate decreed supplications for four days, a number of days in no previous war.
§5.23.4adventus quoque dictatoris omnibus ordinibus obviam effusis celebratior quam ullius umquam antea fuit, triumphusque omnem consuetum honorandi diei illius modum aliquantum excessit.
The arrival of the dictator too, with all classes pouring out to meet him, was celebrated more than that of anyone ever before, and his triumph went considerably beyond all the customary measure of honoring that day.
§5.23.5maxime conspectus ipse est curru equis albis iuncto urbem invectus; parumque id non civile modo, sed humanum etiam visum.
Most of all, he himself was gazed upon as he entered the city in a chariot drawn by white horses; and this seemed not only unbefitting a citizen, but even more than human.
§5.23.6Iovis Solisque equis aequiperatum dictatorem in religionem etiam trahebant, triumphusque ob eam unam maxime rem clarior quam gratior fuit.
They even interpreted the dictator's being made equal to the horses of Jupiter and Sol as a matter of religious offense, and the triumph, chiefly for this one reason, was more spectacular than pleasing.
§5.23.7tum Iunoni reginae templum in Aventino locavit dedicavitque Matutae matris; atque his divinis humanisque rebus gestis dictatura se abdicavit.
Then he contracted for a temple to Queen Juno on the Aventine, and dedicated that of Mother Matuta; and having performed these divine and human duties, he resigned his dictatorship.
agi deinde de Apollinis dono coeptum.
Then they began to discuss the gift to Apollo.
§5.23.8cui se decumam vovisse praedae partem cum diceret Camillus, pontifices solvendum religione populum censerent, §5.23.9haud facile inibatur ratio iubendi referre praedam populum, ut ex ea pars debita in sacrum secerneretur.
When Camillus said that he had vowed a tenth part of the spoil to him, and the pontiffs decided that the people must be freed from their religious obligation, it was not easy to find a method of ordering the people to return the booty so that the due portion might be set aside for sacred purposes from it.
§5.23.10tandem eo, quod lenissimum videbatur, decursum est, ut, qui se domumque religione exsolvere vellet, cum sibimet ipse praedam aestumasset suam, decumae pretium partis in publicum deferret, §5.23.11ut ex eo donum aureum, dignum amplitudine templi ac numine dei, ex dignitate populi Romani fieret.
At length, recourse was had to what seemed the mildest plan: that whoever wished to clear himself and his house of the religious obligation should himself value his own booty and bring the price of the tenth part into the public treasury, so that from it a golden gift, worthy of the grandeur of the temple and the majesty of the god, might be made in keeping with the dignity of the Roman people.
ea quoque conlatio plebis animos a Camillo alienavit.
This contribution also alienated the minds of the plebeians from Camillus.
inter haec pacificatum legati a Volscis §5.23.12et Aequis venerunt, inpetrataque pax, magis ut fessa tam diutino bello adquiesceret civitas, quam quod digni peterent.
Meanwhile, ambassadors from the Volscians and Aequi came to sue for peace, and peace was granted, more so that the state, weary from so long a war, might rest, than because those who sought it were worthy of it.