§8.11.1haec, etsi omnis divini humanique moris memoria abolevit nova peregrinaque omnia priscis ac patriis praeferendo, haud ab re duxi verbis quoque ipsis, ut tradita nuncupataque sunt, referre.
I deemed it not irrelevant to record these things, even in the very words as they have been handed down and pronounced, although the memory of all divine and human custom has perished by the preference of all new and foreign things over the ancient and ancestral ones.
§8.11.2Romanis post proelium demum factum Samnites venisse subsidio, expectato eventu pugnae, apud quosdam auctores invenio.
I find in certain authors that the Samnites, having awaited the outcome of the battle, came to the aid of the Romans only after the battle had already been fought.
§8.11.3Latinis quoque ab Lavinio auxilium, dum deliberando terunt tempus, victis demum ferri coeptum; §8.11.4et, cum iam portis prima signa et pars agminis esset egressa, nuntio adlato de clade Latinorum cum conversis signis retro in urbem rediretur, praetorem eorum nomine Milionium dixisse ferunt pro paulula via magnam mercedem esse Romanis solvendam.
To the Latins also, help from Lavinium, while they were wasting time in deliberating, began to be brought only after they had already been defeated; and, when the first standards and a part of the army had already gone out from the gates, upon the arrival of the news of the slaughter of the Latins, as they were returning back into the city with reversed standards, it is said that their praetor, Milionius by name, said that a great price would have to be paid to the Romans for a very short journey.
§8.11.5qui Latinorum pugnae superfuerant multis itineribus dissipati cum se in unum conglobassent, Vescia urbs eis receptaculum fuit.
Those of the Latins who had survived the battle, scattered along many routes, when they had gathered together into one body, found the city of Vescia to be a refuge for them.
§8.11.6ibi in conciliis Numisius, imperator eorum, ad renovandum bellum principes excitabat adfirmando communem vere Martem belli utramque aciem pari caede prostravisse victoriaeque nomen tantum penes Romanos esse, ceteram pro victis fortunam et illos gerere; §8.11.7funesta duo consulum praetoria, alterum parricidio filii, alterum consulis devoti caede; trucidatum exercitum omnem, caesos hastatos principesque, stragem et ante signa et post signa factam, triarios postremo rem restituisse; §8.11.8Latinorum etsi pariter accisae copiae sint, tamen supplemento vel Latium propius esse vel Volscos quam Romam; §8.11.9itaque, si videatur eis, se, ex Latinis et ex Volscis populis iuventute propere excita, rediturum infesto exercitu Capuam esse Romanosque nihil tum minus quam proelium expectantes necopinato adventu perculsurum. §8.11.10fallacibus litteris circa Latium nomenque Volscum missis, quia, qui non interfuerant pugnae, ad credendum temere faciliores erant, tumultuarius undique exercitus raptim conscriptus convenit.
There, in the councils, Numisius, their general, was stirring up the chiefs to renew the war by asserting that the Mars of war was truly common and had laid low both armies with equal slaughter, and that the name of victory alone belonged to the Romans, while in the rest of their fortune they too behaved like the vanquished; that both consular headquarters were cursed, the one by the execution of a son, the other by the slaughter of the devoted consul; that the entire army had been butchered, the hastati and principes slain, and slaughter made both before and behind the standards, and that the triarii had finally restored the situation; that although the forces of the Latins were equally cut down, yet either Latium or the Volscians were nearer for reinforcement than Rome; Deceptive letters having been sent around the Latin and Volscian name, because those who had not been present at the battle were more ready to believe blindly, a tumultuary army was quickly enrolled from all sides and assembled.
§8.11.11huic agmini Torquatus consul ad Trifanum — inter Sinuessam Minturnasque is locus est — occurrit.
The consul Torquatus met this army at Trifanum—this place is between Sinuessa and Minturnae.
priusquam castris locus caperetur, sarcinis utrimque in acervum coniectis pugnatum debellatumque est;
Before a place for a camp was taken, the baggage on both sides was thrown into a heap, and they fought and ended the war.
§8.11.12adeo enim accisae res sunt, ut consuli victorem exercitum ad depopulandos agros eorum ducenti dederent se omnes Latini deditionemque eam Campani sequerentur.
For their affairs were so ruined that all the Latins surrendered themselves to the consul, who was leading his victorious army to lay waste to their fields, and the Campanians followed that surrender.
Latium Capuaque agro multati.
Latium and Capua were punished by the loss of their land.
§8.11.13Latinus ager, Privernati addito agro, et Falernus, qui populi Campani fuerat, usque ad Vulturnum flumen plebi Romanae dividitur.
The Latin land, with the addition of the Privernate territory, and the Falernian, which had belonged to the Campanian people, as far as the river Vulturnus, was distributed to the Roman plebs.
§8.11.14bina in Latino iugera, ita ut dodrante ex Privernati conplerent, data, terna in Falerno quadrantibus etiam pro longinquitate adiectis.
Two iugera each were given in the Latin territory, in such a way that they completed them with three-fourths from the Privernate land; three each in the Falernian, with fourths also added on account of the distance.
§8.11.15extra poenam fuere Latinorum Laurentes Campanorumque equites, quia non desciverant.
Outside of punishment were the Laurentes among the Latins and the horsemen of the Campanians, because they had not revolted.
cum Laurentibus renovari foedus iussum, renovaturque ex eo quotannis post diem decimum Latinarum.
With the Laurentes, the treaty was ordered to be renewed, and from that time it is renewed every year, ten days after the Latin Festival.
§8.11.16equitibus Campanis civitas Romana data, monumentoque ut esset, aeneam tabulam in aede Castoris Romae fixerunt.
To the Campanian horsemen, Roman citizenship was given, and so that it might be a monument, they fixed a bronze tablet in the temple of Castor at Rome.
vectigal quoque eis Campanus populus iussus pendere in singulos quotannis — fuere autem mille et sescenti — nummos quadringenos quinquagenos.
The Campanian people were also ordered to pay them a tax every year, four hundred and fifty coins to each individual—and there were one thousand six hundred of them.