§6.2.1nec diu licuit quietis consilia erigendae ex tam gravi casu rei publicae secum agitare.
Nor was it permitted for them for a long time in quiet to ponder among themselves plans for raising up the republic from so grave a disaster.
§6.2.2hinc Volsci, veteres hostes, ad extinguendum nomen Romanum arma ceperant; hinc Etruriae principum ex omnibus populis coniurationem de bello ad fanum Voltumnae factam mercatores adferebant.
On the one side the Volsci, old enemies, had taken up arms to extinguish the Roman name; on the other side merchants brought word of a conspiracy for war made at the temple of Voltumna by the chiefs of Etruria from all its peoples.
§6.2.3novus quoque terror accesserat defectionis Latinorum Hernicorumque, qui post pugnam ad lacum Regillum factam per annos prope centum numquam ambigua fide in amicitia populi Romani fuerant.
There had also been added a new terror of the defection of the Latins and Hernici, who, after the battle fought at Lake Regillus, for nearly a hundred years had been in the friendship of the Roman people with never ambiguous loyalty.
Itaque, §6.2.4cum tanti undique terrores circumstarent appareretque omnibus non odio solum apud hostis sed contemptu etiam inter socios nomen Romanum laborare, §6.2.5placuit eiusdem auspiciis defendi rem publicam, cuius recuperata esset, dictatoremque dici M. Furium Camillum.
Therefore, since such great terrors were surrounding them on all sides and it was apparent to all that the Roman name was suffering not only from hatred among enemies but also from contempt among allies, it was resolved that the republic should be defended under the auspices of the same man under whose auspices it had been recovered, and that Marcus Furius Camillus should be named dictator.
§6.2.6is dictator C. Servilium Ahalam magistrum equitum dixit iustitioque indicto dilectum iuniorum habuit ita, ut seniores quoque, quibus aliquid roboris superesset, in verba sua iuratos centuriaret.
As dictator, he named Gaius Servilius Ahala his master of the horse, and, having declared a suspension of public business, held a levy of the younger men in such a way that he also enrolled into centuries those of the elders in whom any strength remained, after they had sworn allegiance to his words.
§6.2.7exercitum conscriptum armatumque trifariam divisit.
He divided the army, thus enrolled and armed, into three parts.
§6.2.8partem unam in agro Veiente Etruriae opposuit, alteram ante urbem castra locare iussit; tribuni militum his A. Manlius, illis, qui adversus Etruscos mittebantur, L. Aemilius praepositus; tertiam partem ipse ad Volscos duxit nec procul a Lanuvio — ad Mecium is locus dicitur — castra oppugnare est adortus.
He opposed one part to Etruria in the territory of Veii, and ordered the second to place their camp before the city; Aulus Manlius was put in command of the latter as military tribune, and Lucius Aemilius of the former, who were sent against the Etruscans; the third part he himself led against the Volsci, and not far from Lanuvium—the place is called ad Mecium—he set about attacking their camp.
quibus ab contemptu, §6.2.9quod prope omnem deletam a Gallis Romanam iuventutem crederent, ad bellum profectis tantum Camillus auditus imperator terroris intulerat, ut vallo se ipsi, vallum congestis arboribus saepirent, ne qua intrare ad munimenta hostis posset.
Having set out for war out of contempt, because they believed that almost all the Roman youth had been destroyed by the Gauls, merely hearing that Camillus was commander had struck so much terror into them that they enclosed themselves with a rampart, and barricaded the rampart with piled-up trees, lest the enemy might enter the fortifications at any point.
quod ubi animadvertit Camillus, §6.2.10ignem in obiectam saepem conici iussit, et forte erat vis magna venti versa in hostem; §6.2.11itaque non aperuit solum incendio viam, sed flammis in castra tendentibus vapore etiam ac fumo crepituque viridis materiae flagrantis ita consternavit hostes, ut minor moles superantibus vallum militibus munitum in castra Volscorum Romanis fuerit, quam transcendentibus saepem incendio absumptan fuerat.
When Camillus noticed this, he ordered fire to be thrown upon the opposing barrier, and by chance there was a great force of wind turned against the enemy; therefore, the fire not only opened a way, but with the flames stretching into the camp, and also by the heat, smoke, and crackling of the burning green timber, it so terrified the enemy that the difficulty for the Romans in entering the camp of the Volsci by surmounting the fortified rampart was less than it had been in crossing the barrier consumed by the fire.
§6.2.12fusis hostibus caesisque cum castra impetu cepisset dictator, praedam militi dedit quo minus speratam minime largitore duce, eo militi gratiorem,
When the dictator, having routed and slaughtered the enemy, had captured the camp by assault, he gave the booty to the soldier, which was all the more pleasing to the soldier as it had been less expected from a leader who was by no means generous.
§6.2.13persecutus deinde fugientes cum omnem Volscum agrum depopulatus esset, ad deditionem Volscos septuagesimo demum anno subegit.
Then, pursuing the fugitives, when he had devastated the entire Volscian territory, he finally subdued the Volsci to surrender in the seventieth year.
§6.2.14victor ex Volscis in Aequos transiit et ipsos bellum molientes; exercitum eorum ad Bolas oppressit nec castra modo sed urbem etiam adgressus impetu primo cepit.
Victorious over the Volsci, he passed over to the Aequi, who were themselves planning war; he crushed their army at Bolae, and, attacking not only the camp but also the city, captured it at the first assault.