§7.15.1acrius invasere Galli dextrum cornu; neque sustineri potuissent, ni forte eo loco dictator fuisset Sex. §7.15.2Tullium nomine increpans rogitansque, “sicine pugnaturos milites spopondisset;
The Gauls attacked the right wing more fiercely; and they could not have been withstood, had not the dictator by chance been in that place, upbraiding Sextus Tullius by name and repeatedly asking: “Is this how you promised the soldiers would fight?
ubi illi clamores sint arma poscentium, ubi minae iniussu imperatoris proelium inituros;
Where are those shouts of men demanding arms? Where are the threats that they would enter battle without the commander's order?
en ipsum imperatorem clara voce vocare ad proelium et ire armatum ante prima signa; ecquis sequeretur eorum, qui modo ducturi fuerint, in castris feroces, in acie pavidi. ” uera audiebant; §7.15.3itaque tantos pudor stimulos admovit, ut ruerent in hostium tela alienatis a memoria periculi animis.
Lo, the commander himself calls to battle with a clear voice and goes armed before the front line; is there anyone of those who were just now going to lead us, fierce in the camp, cowardly in the battle array, who would follow?” They were hearing the truth; and so shame applied such great spurs to them that they rushed into the enemy’s weapons, with their minds turned away from the memory of danger.
hic primo impetus prope vecors turbavit hostes, eques deinde emissus turbatos avertit.
This first, almost mad charge threw the enemy into confusion, and then the horsemen, having been sent forth, routed them in their disorder.
ipse dictator, §7.15.4postquam labantem una parte vidit aciem, signa in laevum cornu confert, quo turbam hostium congregari cernebat, et iis, qui in monte erant, signum, quod convenerat, dedit.
The dictator himself, after he saw the line wavering in one part, moved the standards to the left wing, where he saw the crowd of the enemy gathering, and gave to those who were on the mountain the signal that had been agreed upon.
§7.15.5ubi inde quoque novus clamor ortus est et tendere obliquo monte ad castra Gallorum visi sunt, tum metu, ne excluderentur, omissa pugna est, cursuque effuso ad castra ferebantur.
When from there too a new shout arose and they were seen tending along the slope of the mountain toward the camp of the Gauls, then, from fear lest they should be cut off, the battle was abandoned, and they were carried toward the camp in headlong flight.
§7.15.6ubi cum occurrisset eis M. Valerius magister equitum, qui profligato dextro cornu obequitabat hostium munimentis, §7.15.7ad montes silvasque vertunt fugam plurimique ibi a fallaci equitum specie agasonibusque excepti sunt; et eorum, quos pavor pertulerat in silvas, atrox caedes post sedatum proelium fuit.
When they were met there by Marcus Valerius, the master of the horse, who, having routed the right wing, was riding up to the enemy’s fortifications, they turned their flight toward the mountains and woods; and there most of them were intercepted by the horsemen of false appearance and the muleteers; and of those whom fear had carried into the woods, there was a terrible slaughter after the battle was subdued.
§7.15.8nec alius post M. Furium quam C. Sulpicius iustiorem de Gallis egit triumphum.
Nor did any other after Marcus Furius celebrate a more deserved triumph over the Gauls than Gaius Sulpicius.
auri quoque ex Gallicis spoliis satis magnum pondus saxo quadrato saeptum in Capitolio sacravit.
He also consecrated a fairly large weight of gold from the Gallic spoils, enclosed with squared stone, in the Capitol.
eodem anno et a consulibus vario eventu bellatum; §7.15.9nam Hernici a C. Plautio devicti subactique sunt.
In the same year, war was also waged by the consuls with varying fortune; for the Hernici were thoroughly defeated and subdued by Gaius Plautius.
Fabius collega eius incaute atque inconsulte adversus Tarquinienses pugnavit.
Fabius, his colleague, fought incautiously and inconsiderately against the Tarquinienses.
§7.15.10nec in acie tantum ibi cladis acceptum, quam quod trecentos septem milites Romanos captos Tarquinienses immolarunt, qua foeditate supplicii aliquanto ignominia populi Romani insignitior fuit.
Nor was so much of a disaster received there in the battle line as from the fact that the Tarquinienses sacrificed three hundred and seven captured Roman soldiers, by which foulness of punishment the ignominy of the Roman people was made considerably more conspicuous.
§7.15.11accessit ad eam cladem et vastatio Romani agri, quam Privernates, Veliterni deinde, incursione repentina fecerunt.
To that disaster was added also the devastation of the Roman territory, which the Privernates, and then the Veliterni, made by a sudden incursion.
§7.15.12eodem anno duae tribus, Pomptina et Publilia, additae; ludi votivi, quos M. Furius dictator voverat, facti; et de ambitu ab C. Poetelio tribuno plebis auctoribus patribus tum primum ad populum latum est; eaque rogatione novorum maxime hominum ambitionem, §7.15.13qui nundinas et conciliabula obire soliti erant, conpressam credebant.
In the same year, two tribes, the Pomptina and the Publilia, were added; the votive games which the dictator Marcus Furius had vowed were celebrated; and a bill concerning bribery (de ambitu) was then for the first time brought before the people by Gaius Poetelius, tribune of the plebs, with the authorization of the senate; and by that proposal they believed that the ambition especially of the new men, who had been accustomed to go about the markets and meeting places, was checked.