§6.9.1ceterum animus ducis rei maiori, Antio, inminebat: §6.9.2id caput Volscorum, eamfuisse originem proximi belli.
But the mind of the commander was intent on a greater matter, namely, Antium: that was the capital of the Volscians, and had been the origin of the recent war.
sed quia nisi magno apparatu, tormentis machinisque, tam valida urbs capi non poterat, relicto ad exercitum collega Romam est profectus, ut senatum ad excidendum Antium hortaretur.
But because so strong a city could not be taken except with great preparation, artillery and engines, leaving his colleague with the army, he set out for Rome to urge the senate to destroy Antium.
§6.9.3inter sermonem eius — credo rem Antiatem diuturniorem manere dis cordi fuisse — legati ab Nepete ac Sutrio auxilium adversus Etruscos petentes veniunt, brevem occasionem esse ferendi auxilii memorantes.
During his discourse — I believe it was pleasing to the gods that the power of Antium should remain longer — ambassadors from Nepete and Sutrium arrived, seeking aid against the Etruscans, and mentioning that the opportunity for bringing help was short.
§6.9.4eo vim Camilli ab Antio fortuna avertit.
By this, fortune averted the force of Camillus from Antium.
namque cum ea loca opposita Etruriae et velut claustra inde portaeque essent, et illis occupandi ea, cum quid novi molirentur, et Romanis recuperandi tuendique cura erat.
For since those places were opposed to Etruria and were, as it were, the barriers and gates from that direction, there was a care both for those people to occupy them whenever they attempted any new enterprise, and for the Romans to recover and protect them.
igitur senatui cum Camillo agi placuit, §6.9.5ut omisso Antio bellum Etruscum susciperet.
Therefore, it pleased the senate to negotiate with Camillus, that, letting Antium go, he should undertake the Etruscan war.
legiones urbanae, quibus Quinctius praefuerat, ei decernuntur.
The city legions, which Quinctius had commanded, were assigned to him.
§6.9.6quamquam expertum exercitum adsuetumque imperio, qui in Volscis erat, mallet, nihil recusavit.
Although he would have preferred the experienced army accustomed to his command, which was among the Volscians, he refused nothing.
Valerium tantummodo imperii socium depoposcit.
He only demanded Valerius as his partner in command.
Quinctius Horatiusque successores Valerio in Volscos missi.
Quinctius and Horatius were sent to the Volscians as successors to Valerius.
profecti ab urbe Sutrium Furius §6.9.7et Valerius partem oppidi iam captam ab Etruscis invenere, ex parte altera intersaeptis itineribus aegre oppidanos vim hostium ab se arcentes.
Setting out from the city to Sutrium, Furius and Valerius found a part of the town already captured by the Etruscans; on the other side, the townspeople, with the streets barricaded, were with difficulty keeping off the force of the enemy from themselves.
§6.9.8cum Romani auxilii adventus tum Camilli nomen celeberrimum apud hostes sociosque et in praesentia rem inclinatam sustinuit et spatium ad opem ferendam dedit.
Both the arrival of the Roman aid and the name of Camillus, highly celebrated among enemies and allies alike, both sustained the leaning fortune for the present and gave time for bringing help.
§6.9.9itaque diviso exercitu Camillus collegam in eam partem circumductis copiis, quam hostes tenebant, moenia adgredi iubet, non tam a spe scalis capi urbem posse, quam ut aversis eo hostibus et oppidanis iam pugnando fessis laxaretur labor et ipse spatium intrandi sine certamine moenia haberet.
Therefore, having divided the army, Camillus ordered his colleague, having led his troops around, to attack the walls in that part which the enemy held, not so much from a hope that the city could be taken by escalade, as that, the enemy being turned in that direction and the labor being eased for the townspeople who were already weary from fighting, he himself might have room to enter the walls without a contest.
§6.9.10quod cum simul utrimque factum esset ancepsque terror Etruscos circumstaret et moenia summa vi oppugnari et intra moenia esse hostem viderent, porta se, quae una forte non obsidebatur, trepidi uno agmine eiecere.
When this had been done on both sides at the same time, and a double terror surrounded the Etruscans — seeing both the walls attacked with the utmost force and the enemy inside the walls — they threw themselves out in fear in a single column through a gate which by chance was the only one not blockaded.
§6.9.11magna caedes fugientium et in urbe et per agros est facta plures a Furianis intra moenia caesi; Valeriani expeditiores ad persequendos fuere nec ante noctem, quae conspectum ademit, finem caedendi fecere.
A great slaughter of the fugitives was made both in the city and through the fields; more were slain inside the walls by Furius' men; Valerius' men were more unencumbered for pursuing, and they did not make an end of the slaughter before the night, which took away their sight.
§6.9.12Sutrio recepto restitutoque sociis Nepete exercitus ductus, quod per deditionem acceptum iam totum Etrusci habebant.
Sutrium having been recovered and restored to the allies, the army was led to Nepete, which, having been accepted through surrender, the Etruscans now held entirely.