§6.3.1cum in ea parte, in qua caput rei Romanae Camillus erat, ea fortuna esset, aliam in partem terror ingens ingruerat.
While there was such fortune in that part where Camillus, the head of the Roman state, was, in another part a huge terror had rushed in.
§6.3.2Etruria prope omnis armata Sutrium, socios populi Romani, obsidebat; quorum legati opem rebus adfectis orantes cum senatum adissent, decretum tulere, ut dictator primo quoque tempore auxilium Sutrinis ferret.
Almost the whole of armed Etruria was besieging Sutrium, allies of the Roman people; when their ambassadors had approached the senate, begging for help for their distressed fortunes, they carried back a decree that the dictator should bring help to the people of Sutrium at the very first opportunity.
§6.3.3cuius spei moram cum pati fortuna obsessorum non potuisset confectaque paucitas oppidanorum opere, vigiliis, vulneribus, quae semper eosdem urgebant, per pactionem urbe hostibus tradita inermis cum singulis emissa vestimentis miserabili agmine penates relinqueret, eo forte tempore Camillus cum exercitu Romano intervenit.
When the fortune of the besieged could not endure the delay of this hope, and the small number of townspeople, exhausted by labor, watchings, and wounds, which were continually pressing upon the same men, having surrendered the city to the enemy by a treaty, were leaving their homes in a miserable column, unarmed and sent out with only a single garment each, by chance at that very time Camillus arrived with the Roman army.
§6.3.4cui cum se maesta turba ad pedes prouoluisset principumque orationem necessitate ultima expressam fetus mulierum ac puerorum, qui exilii comites trahebantur, excepisset, parcere lamentis Sutrinos iussit; Etruscis se luctum lacrimasque ferre.
When the sorrowful crowd had flung themselves at his feet, and the weeping of the women and children, who were being dragged along as companions in exile, had followed the speech of the leading men wrung from them by the utmost necessity, he ordered the people of Sutrium to spare their lamentations, saying that he was bringing grief and tears to the Etruscans.
§6.3.5sarcinas inde deponi Sutrinosque ibi considere modico praesidio relicto, arma secum militem ferre iubet.
He then ordered the baggage to be deposited, and the people of Sutrium to remain there with a moderate guard left behind, and the soldiers to carry only their arms with them.
ita expedito exercitu profectus ad Sutrium, id quod rebatur, soluta omnia rebus, at fit, secundis invenit, nullam stationem ante moenia, patentes portas, victorem vagum praedam ex hostium tectis egerentem.
Having set out for Sutrium with his army thus unencumbered, he found, as he suspected, everything relaxed, as usually happens in prosperous circumstances—no guard before the walls, the gates open, and the victorious enemy scattered, carrying booty out of the houses of their foes.
iterum igitur eodem die Sutrium capitur;
Therefore, for the second time on the same day, Sutrium was captured.
§6.3.6victores Etrusci passim trucidantur ab novo hoste, neque se conglobandi coeundique in unum aut arma capiundi datur spatium.
The victorious Etruscans were slaughtered everywhere by the new enemy, and no time was given them either to mass themselves and gather into one body, or to take up arms.
§6.3.7cum pro se quisque tenderent ad portas, si qua forte se in agros eicere possent, clausas — id enim primum dictator imperaverat — portas inveniunt.
When they were hastening each for himself to the gates, to see if by any chance they could escape into the fields, they found the gates closed—for this was the first thing the dictator had commanded.
inde alii arma capere, §6.3.8alii, quos forte armatos tumultus occupaverat, convocare suos, ut proelium inirent; quod accensum ab desperatione hostium fuisset, ni praecones per urbem dimissi poni arma et parci inermi iussissent nec praeter armatos quemquam violari.
Thereupon some began to take up arms, others, whom the tumult had found armed by chance, began to call together their comrades to begin a battle; and this would have been kindled by the desperation of the enemy, had not heralds, sent through the city, ordered arms to be laid down, and that the unarmed should be spared, and no one except the armed should be harmed.
§6.3.9tum etiam quibus animi in spe ultima obstinati ad decertandum fuerant, postquam data spes vitae est, iactare passim arma inermesque, quod tutius fortuna fecerat, se hosti offerre.
Then even those whose minds in their last hope had been resolved on fighting to the death, after hope of life was given, began to throw away their arms everywhere, and unarmed, which fortune had now made the safer course, to offer themselves to the enemy.
§6.3.10magna multitudo in custodias divisa; oppidum ante noctem redditum Sutrinis inviolatum integrumque ab omni clade belli, quia non vi captum, sed traditum per condiciones fuerat.
A great multitude was distributed into guards; before night, the town was restored to the people of Sutrium, uninjured and free from all the devastation of war, because it had not been taken by force, but had been surrendered on terms.