§6.25.1ubi in recensendis captivis cum Tusculani aliquot noscitarentur, secreti ab aliis ad tribunos adducuntur percunctantibusque fassi publico consilio se militasse.
When, in reviewing the prisoners, some Tusculans were recognized, they were separated from the others and led to the tribunes. On being questioned, they confessed that they had served by public counsel.
§6.25.2cuius tam vicini belli metu Camillus motus extemplo se Romam captivos ducturum ait, ne patres ignari sint Tusculanos ab societate descisse; castris exercituique interim, si videater, praesit collega.
Camillus, moved by the fear of a war so close at hand, declared that he would immediately conduct the prisoners to Rome, so that the senators might not be ignorant that the Tusculans had revolted from the alliance; in the meantime, if it seemed fit, his colleague should command the camp and the army.
§6.25.3documento unus dies fuerat, ne sua consilia melioribus praeferret.
A single day had been a lesson to him not to prefer his own counsels to better ones.
nec tamen aut ipsi aut in exercitu cuiquam satis placato animo Camillus laturus culpam eius videbatur, qua data in tam praecipitem casum res publica esset; §6.25.4et cum in exercitu tum Romae constans omnium fama erat, cum varia fortuna in Volscis gesta res esset, adversae pugnae fugaeque in L. Furio culpam, secundae decus omne penes M. Furium esse.
Yet neither to himself nor to anyone in the army did Camillus seem likely to bear his colleague's fault with a sufficiently appeased mind, the fault by which the state had been thrown into such headlong danger; and both in the army and at Rome there was a constant report among all, that though the campaign in the Volscian territory had been conducted with varied fortune, the blame for the adverse battle and flight lay with Lucius Furius, while all the glory of the successful issue belonged to Marcus Furius.
§6.25.5introductis in senatum captivis cum bello persequendos Tusculanos patres censuissent Camilloque id bellum mandassent, adiutorem sibi ad eam rem unum petit permissoque, ut ex collegis optaret, quem vellet, contra spem omnium L. Furium optavit.
The prisoners having been introduced into the senate, when the senators had decided that the Tusculans should be pursued with war and had entrusted that war to Camillus, he asked for one helper for himself for that task; and permission being given to choose whom he wished from his colleagues, contrary to the expectation of all, he chose Lucius Furius.
§6.25.6qua moderatione animi cum collegae levavit infamiam, tum sibi gloriam ingentem peperit.
By this moderation of mind, he both lightened the infamy of his colleague and acquired immense glory for himself.
nec fuit cum Tusculanis bellum; pace constanti vim Romanam arcuerunt, quam armis non poterant.
Nor was there any war with the Tusculans; by a constant peace they warded off the Roman power, which they could not have done by arms.
§6.25.7Intrantibus fines Romanis non demigratum ex propinquis itineri locis, non cultus agrorum intermissus, patentibus portis urbis togati obviam frequentes imperatoribus processere, commeatus exercitui comiter in castra ex urbe et ex agris devehitur.
As the Romans entered their borders, there was no removal from the places near the line of march, nor was the cultivation of the fields interrupted; the gates of the city being wide open, citizens clad in the toga went out in crowds to meet the generals, and provisions for the army were courteously brought into the camp from the city and the fields.
§6.25.8Camillus castris ante portas positis, eademne forma pacis, quae in agris ostentaretur, etiam intra moenia esset, scire cupiens, ingressus urbem ubi patentes ianuas
Camillus, having pitched his camp before the gates, wishing to know whether the same appearance of peace which was displayed in the fields existed also within the walls, entered the city.
§6.25.9et tabernis apertis proposita omnia in medio vidit intentosque opifices suo quemque operi et ludos litterarum strepere discentium vocibus ac repletas semitas inter vulgus aliud puerorum et mulierum huc atque illuc euntium, qua quemque suorum usuum causae ferrent, nihil usquam non pavidis modo sed ne mirantibus quidem simile, §6.25.10circumspiciebat omnia, inquirens oculis, ubinam bellum fuisset; §6.25.11adeo nec amotae rei usquam nec oblatae ad tempus vestigium ullum erat, sed ita omnia constanti tranquilla pace, ut eo vix fama belli perlata videri posset.
When he saw the doors open, and the shops open with all wares displayed in public, the artisans intent each on his own work, the schools of learning resounding with the voices of pupils, and the streets filled, amidst other crowds of children and women, with people going hither and thither wherever the demands of their business carried each of them, with nothing anywhere resembling not only those who were afraid, but not even those who were surprised, he looked around at everything, searching with his eyes to see where indeed there had been a war; so completely was there no trace anywhere of anything having been removed or brought forward for the occasion, but all things were in such stable and quiet peace, that it could scarcely seem that even the rumor of war had reached that place.